Tansman Alexandre. Quatriéme Recueil de Mazurkas pour piano

Paris: Editions Max Eschig, 1990. — 18 p.‘’Alexandre Tansman followed from the beginning a personal way out of any system. His original and complex sound world could be characterized by: order, clarity, balance and beauty. One might hope that our times, eager for knowledge, will reconsider this generation of composers apparently kept at a distance without any reason and reveal all its darings and treasures to make us happy.’’
'The 4 Mazurkas collections, spread out over several periods of the composer's life, are among the most important works in Alexandre Tansman's production. They reflect his deep ego. Here we enter the area of the confidence only reserved to a few very close friends. Here we find all the expressions of his personality: melancholy, humour, elegance and tenderness, fear and despair. Those 36 short pieces are all little masterpieces, and also an unconcealed homage to Chopin, about whom Tansman liked to say: ''He is the greatest artist Poland has ever given to the world.'' The Mazurka is present in the composer's whole work. This form symbolized his attachment to his native soil and radiates in its writing the Polish folklore. Let us also mention the use of Tansman's chord or ''skyscraper chord'', developed with his own concept of harmony.''