Tansman’s extremely rich compositional legacy covers a very wide range of forms and genres of instrumental, vocal and instrumental, and stage music, with the exception of sacred music. As far as the style and aesthetics are concerned, his output is fully representative of the French variety of Neoclassicism in 20th-century music. […] As far as Tansman’s chamber compositions are concerned, which include less than thirty pieces for various en-sembles, a prominent place is occupied by string quartets, considered by the composer himself the purest musi-cal form: ‘One cannot cheat in a quartet,’ he used to say. Tansman com-posed nine works representing the genre, and they were created over the span of forty years of his creative journey. The three compositions recorded on the album come from the early period, namely from 1925, 1930, and 1935. They are related both in style and expression and constitute the composer’s bow to the almost two-centuries-old tradition of the genre.

Tomasz Baranowski

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