Alexandre Tansman's work has always been a melting-pot; crueller tongues might describe him as an epigone, which would be neither kind nor fair. Sure, Tansman absorbed Stravinsky, Martinů, Poulenc, Ravel, Gershwin, Milhaud and others: a real and immensely rich multiculturalism, which allows the attentive listener to quickly twig that the work isn't by any of the composers cited, and therefore can only be... Tansman. This discographic world-first brings us the Concert Suite for Oboe from 1966, as well as the Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet and String Orchestra from 1952, and the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra from 1957, all works played by clarinettist Fabrizio Meloni and the oboist Diego Dini Ciacci, both soloists with the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, given a most appropriate accompaniment here by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. It would be a real shame to miss out on these little pearls of finesse, spirit and also of unflagging rigour. © SM/Qobuz