So, there I was, listening to a different performance of the Tansman 5th symphony, which I found in the garage - much better interpretation from not as good an orchestra, so a trade-off, but I also prefer the sound, which is more up front in this one. So, for fun I searched Amazon to see if there are other performances of his symphonies - there are some one-offs that don't look very good, but in the search, interestingly, a Henryk Gorecki symphony came up, which I thought was odd - not his famous chart-topping third symphony (one of the oddest phenomenons in music history, selling over a million copies on the pop charts), but his final symphony, the fourth, which he completed only in short score with orchestration instructions for his son, who did the orchestration after his father died. And what is the subtitle of this symphony? Tansman Episodes. So, a kind of homage to Tansman and written for a then-festival celebrating Tansman. It's on the Tube of You and it's very interesting - very repetitious - VERY repetitious, but like Gorecki's third, there's something mesmerizing about it. I'm liking it although you'll want to kick in your speakers after the twentieth repeat of the opening figure. But somehow it's held my attention (I accidentally wrote "intention" of "attention" - hmmm).
