TANEYEV: Sym. #1 and #3!!! At Last!!!

[Hector]

Hmm.

Happily, I have heard evidence of the contrary.

You mean he didn't get paid in toffee? Shame.

[carlos]

The suite for violin and orch.is IMHO one of the
most original and best ever written. There are
2 fantastic recordings by Oistrakh (the known
one I've with Malko). I´ve also a very fine one
by Igor Oistrakh, and a very rare transcription
for cello and orch.

[Brian]

*cough* Listening to the CD y'all just preordered, right now.

[Wanderer]

*cough* Listening to the CD y'all just preordered, right now.

Give us a review, then!

And by all means, you may continue listening and reviewing the other symphonies, as well. 

[Harry]

Give us a review, then!

And by all means, you may continue with listening and reviewing the other symphonies, as well. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Don't bother. Academic, anonymous and hardly Russian.

Is Hector right? I checked out the clips at JPC. I don't want to emulate paulb's sterling example here but what I heard was not encouraging. Someone, please tell me the first movment of the First actually goes somewhere eventually. The inane repetitiousness makes it sound like P.D.Q. Bach lived well into the Romantic era. Hear for yourself, clip number one:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/1453891/rk/classic/rsk/hitlist

Sarge

[Don]

Doncha just love the soubriquet: "well crafted."

Kiss of death or what?

We had a "Taneyev Festival" of sorts last year and some of his music got on the wireless.

Don't bother. Academic, anonymous and hardly Russian.

I haven't heard a Taneyev recording I didn't enjoy.  The least rewarding ones had performances that tried to turn him into another Tchaikovsky.

[Cato]

Is Hector right? I checked out the clips at JPC. I don't want to emulate paulb's sterling example here but what I heard was not encouraging. Someone, please tell me the first movment of the First actually goes somewhere eventually. The inane repetitiousness makes it sound like P.D.Q. Bach lived well into the Romantic era. Hear for yourself, clip number one:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/1453891/rk/classic/rsk/hitlist

Sarge

I don't know the answer, because I've never heard the First, and few others have either.  These are first recordings apparently.  You might want to give the First some slack: Taneyev composed it at age 16.  Maybe he was no Mendelssohn, but a late bloomer!

[71 dB]

You might want to give the First some slack: Taneyev composed it at age 16.  Maybe he was no Mendelssohn, but a late bloomer!

So Taneyev composed it in 1872? He discovered the masters of counterpoint (Lassus etc) in 1878.

[Cato]

So Taneyev composed it in 1872? He discovered the masters of counterpoint (Lassus etc) in 1878.

The information came from the CHANDOS website, and said he composed it when Tchaikovsky when his main professor.

[Sergeant Rock]

I don't know the answer, because I've never heard the First, and few others have either.  These are first recordings apparently.  You might want to give the First some slack: Taneyev composed it at age 16.  Maybe he was no Mendelssohn, but a late bloomer!

Oh I will, Cato. Knowing now it's the work of a teen, I'll put on my more tolerant ears.

Sarge

[Cato]

While again browsing for things Taneyev, I discovered a CD was released before Christmas of the Piano Concerto.

Has anyone here heard this yet?  Any reviews?

http://www.toccataclassics.com/artistcds.php?ID=7

[sound67]

And while checking for a recording of Sergei Taneyev's long-unheard First and Third Symphonies, I discovered Amazon was showing a CHANDOS release with Polyansky conducting the Russian State Symphony!   

So, soon you will be able to bask in the mediocrity of this conductor and orchestra.

[Harry]

So, soon you will be able to bask in the mediocrity of this conductor and orchestra.

That's thank God, only your opinion.