Here is a major repertory hole filler: a decent cross-section of the piano music of Polish-born composer Alexandre Tansman on a single Chandos disc, featuring pianist Margaret Fingerhut. Tansman was himself a pianist of better than fair ability and produced much keyboard music for his own use; his piano music provides a snapshot glimpse of the various stages of development that Tansman went through.

Pianist Margaret Fingerhut presents a collection of encore-like pieces that explore the way in which composers have transformed the piano, in essence a percussion instrument, into one that can sing. A highly personal album, it has come about after a recent period of injuries threatened Fingerhut’s own ‘song’ – her ability to play the piano.

A pesar de su relativa oscuridad, la música para piano de Dukas es muy interesante y la Sonata en cuatro movimientos sobre el modelo beethoveniano es una obra maestra sobre la que planea la sombra de César Franck particularmente en los pasajes para la mano izquierda que resuenan como un órgano y con unos argumentos musicales que ocasionalmente son interferidos por corrientes rachmaninovianas. De aquí saltamos al exotismo de La Périand para movernos hacia el impresionismo tipo Debussy.