Valeri Polyansky, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Cappella - Taneyev: John of Damascus; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 71:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9608 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 71:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9608 | Recorded: 1996
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915) is an exceptional figure in 19th-century Russian music. He had nothing in common with the Russian National School. Taneyev's abstract approach to composing was in stark contrast to the outbursts of emotion that we encounter in many of his contemporaries. People tend to call him the Russian Brahms, were it not for Taneyev's disapproval of his music. Taneyev was a composition student of Tchaikovsky and, as a pianist, provided the premieres of Tchaikovsky's works for piano and orchestra. A close friendship developed between the two, which would last until Tchaikovsky's death, despite the sincerity with which Taneyev was one of the few in the Tchaikovsky area to dare to criticize his work.