Légende by Tansman Cello Quartet

Tansman Cello Quartet

Légende

Format: CD
Label: Antarctica
UPC: 0608917730128
Catnr: AR 0001
Release date: 01 April 2016

1 CD

Label
Antarctica

UPC
0608917730128

Catalogue number
AR 0001

Release date
01 April 2016

""[...] they do it magically. [...]""

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About the album

The repertoire for cello quartet is not large. It does nevertheless include some jewels which deserve to be discovered. The Tansman Cello Quartet present here a few of them for you to enjoy.

Das Repertoire für Cello Quartet kann man durchaus als eingeschränkt betrachten, jedoch enthält es einige Schätze, die es verdienen entdeckt zu werden. Das Tansman Cello Quartet präsentiert hier einige dieser Schätze von Alexandre Tansman, Joseph Jongen, Pierre Petit, Rudolf Matz und Jules de Swert.

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Tansman Cello Quartet

Four cellists from different backgrounds, united by a shared passion for the cello. The Tansman Cello Quartet was formed in 2010 as part of the Violoncelles en Folie Festival. Since then, it has held residencies there every summer. Marinela Doko, Fernando Lima, Didier Poskin and Karel Steylaerts each speak a different mother tongue, come from three distinct countries – Albania, Brazil and Belgium – but find through the cello a common, rich and universal language. Their name pays homage to the composer Alexandre Tansman, born in Łódź in 1897 and died in Paris in 1986, author of a monumental oeuvre of more than 300 works. Among them, Two Movements for Four Cellos (1935), rare and captivating, appears on their first album Légende,...

Marinela Doko, Fernando Lima, Didier Poskin and Karel Steylaerts each speak a different mother tongue, come from three distinct countries – Albania, Brazil and Belgium – but find through the cello a common, rich and universal language.

Their name pays homage to the composer Alexandre Tansman, born in Łódź in 1897 and died in Paris in 1986, author of a monumental oeuvre of more than 300 works. Among them, Two Movements for Four Cellos (1935), rare and captivating, appears on their first album Légende, released in 2015, which had left its mark with its finesse and originality.

Their repertoire spans all periods—from Baroque to contemporary—with a particular fondness for original works for cello quartet. In addition to Violoncelles en Folie, they have performed in France (Messiaen Festival, Beauvais Cello Festival, Musiques en Écrins Festival, Valcroissant Abbey, Salle Cocteau in Paris) and Belgium (Fondation Servais, Festival Arte Amanti, etc.).

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Didier Poskin (cello)

Karel Steylaerts (cello)

Fernando Lima de Albuquerque (cello)

Marinela Doko (cello)

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Joseph Jongen

Joseph Jongen was born in Liège on December 14, 1873 and died in Sart-lez-Spa on July 12, 1953. He began his study of music at the Royal Conservatory of Liège in October 1881, for which some official rules needed bending—he was not even eight years old.
But he was an exceptionally gifted student, of music theory as well as keyboard playing. He finished with a first prize in fugue with the equivalent of a summa cum laude in 1991 and with a gilded silver medal (equivalent to a magna cum laude) for piano in 1892; in 1896 he obtained the same medal for organ. He began composing at the age of 13, strongly encouraged by his father, who had given him his first music lessons, and stopped only in 1951, two years before his death. He was a candidate for the national composition “Grand Concours” in 1895 and came in second, but when he again participated in the next Concours, in 1897, he won with his cantata Comala. He composed music in nearly all forms, but he was an especially prolific writer of music for organ and piano, as well as chamber music

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Alexander Tansman

Pierre Petit

Rudolf Matz

Rudolf Matz (Zagreb 1901 – Zagreb 1988) played an important role in the musical life of his home town. As a composer, cellist and conductor he combined these three facets in his First Years of the Cello, the six volumes of which were published between 1948 and 1962 and which some consider to be the best work for learning the cello since Duport’s Essai sur le doigté du violoncelle from 1806. Among the hundreds of other compositions by Matz, is the Cello Quartet in D minor published in 1966. In this piece, Matz subtly revisits themes from other illustrious predecessors.

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Jules de Swert

Jules de Swert (Louvain 1843 - Ostende 1891) was an important representative of the Belgian school of cellists. From 1857 he was a pupil of François Servais, known as the “Paganini of the cello” at the Brussels Conservatory. He was awarded a Premier Prix there in 1859. He went on to hold top posts as soloist or konzertmeister in Dusseldorf, Weimar, Berlin and Vienna. De Swert composed two cello concertos and numerous fantasies for cello and chamber ensembles. His Pensée Elégiaque was dedicated to the oldest son of François Servais, Joseph, also a famous virtuoso cellist, after his death in 1885. The atmosphere of this piece is one of meditative serenity.

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