Sunday 13 Feb: SJ on Taneyev's Piano Quintet

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  • french frank
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    • Feb 2007
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    Sunday 13 Feb: SJ on Taneyev's Piano Quintet

    Sunday, 17:00

    "Stephen Johnson is joined by the Danel Quartet & David Fanning to explore the nuances found in a hidden gem of the chamber music repertoire - the Piano Quintet by Sergei Taneyev. Sometimes referred to as "the Russian Brahms", Taneyev was a pupil of Tchaikovsky at the Moscow Conservatoire, and in turn taught younger composers such as Scriabin, Gliere, Rachmaninoff and Medtner. He was a fine pianist himself, and was the soloist in the premieres of all of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos.
    This Piano Quintet in G minor was written towards the end of Taneyev's life, in 1911 and ranks among the finest examples of Russian Romantic chamber music."
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
  • Roehre

    #2
    Beautiful but long (more than 45 minutes IIRC), perhaps too long, quintet.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30252

      #3
      Originally posted by Roehre View Post
      Beautiful but long (more than 45 minutes IIRC), perhaps too long, quintet.
      The connections with Brahms and Tchaikovsky should pique the curiosity, though
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30252

        #4
        Well, I enjoyed the analysis. Might not have time to listen to the performance before it disappears from the iPlayer but I think it would be on my list of possible purchases.

        I realise now that I was probably thinking of Alexander Taneyev, who's almost exactly coeval with Sergei. SJ pointed out that there wasn't a lot of 'proper' Russian chamber music ('proper' in not sounding as good or better in orchestrated versions), with this quintet a notable exception. Alexander seems to have written nearly as much chamber music as Sergei.
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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