Composer of the Week - Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

[EdgeleyRob]

Well,apparently Tolstoy's missus had the hots for Taneyev,and Leo was a bit miffed.

Whatever,that 5th String Quartet is gorgeous,and I can recommend the Naxos version,c/w the equally appealing 7th.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well,apparently Tolstoy's missus had the hots for Taneyev,and Leo was a bit miffed.

I missed the programme so thanks for the 'news bite' !

[DublinJimbo]

Bought on a whim

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Taneyev-Piano-Quintet-Trio/dp/B0009AM5GS/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1391690239&sr=1-2&keywords=taneyev

and greatly enjoyed ever since.

Yes indeed, that's a superb release.

[gurnemanz]

Bought on a whim

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Taneyev-Piano-Quintet-Trio/dp/B0009AM5GS/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1391690239&sr=1-2&keywords=taneyev

and greatly enjoyed ever since. Alas, I don't think that saucy spoilers are in order ...... Janacek is a clue.

I got it when it came out - 2005 - based entirely on good reviews, hardly knowing the composer at all. It is a great disc and, coincidentally, I think the longest CD (82.37) in my not small collection.

I have recently got to know a few of his songs on this marvellous Oda Slobodskaya collection from Eloquence. The exciting "My Heart is beating" reminds me a bit of Hugo Wolf with a bit of Erlkönig thrown in.

[EdgeleyRob]

I've really enjoyed this COTW.
Today we heard about,amongst other things,his time as a teacher of harmony,piano and composition at the Moscow Conservatory.
His students included Scriabin,Rachmaninoff,Glière,Gretchaninov,Medtner and Lyapunov !!!!,now that's an impressive list.
More fine music too.

[Serial_Apologist]

He kept on being described as "conservative" in his time, from what one learned; but was I alone in hearing pre-echoes of Zemlinsky in the harmony and colouristic orchestration in one of the operas, and of pre-atonal Schoenberg in the harmonic drift engendered by contrapuntal accretion in brief moments in the fifth string quartet? Anyway, certainly it's proved a most informative week. Bravo, COTW!

[EdgeleyRob]

He kept on being described as "conservative" in his time, from what one learned; but was I alone in hearing pre-echoes of Zemlinsky in the harmony and colouristic orchestration in one of the operas, and of pre-atonal Schoenberg in the harmonic drift engendered by contrapuntal accretion in brief moments in the fifth string quartet? Anyway, certainly it's proved a most informative week. Bravo, COTW!

I wouldn't know about that,but it's certainly damn fine music that deserves to be described as more than just conservative!