Composer: Sergei Taneyev
Performer: Joseph Banowetz, Adam Wodnicki, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Orchestra: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Thomas Sanderling
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0042
Release: 2006
Size: 269 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante funebre
03. Prelude in F Major
04. Lullaby in B-Flat Major
Theme and Variations in C minor
05. Theme
06. Variation 1
07. Variation 2: Allegretto alla quartetto di P. Tchaikovsky
08. Variation 3
09. Variation 4
10. Variation 5: Andante espressivo
11. Variation 6: Allegro
12. Variation 7: Andante
13. Variation 8: Allegro vivace
14. Variation 9: Allegro
15. Variation 10
16. Variation 11: Andante
17. Variation 12: Andante
18. Allegro in E-Flat Major
19. Andante semplice in B Minor
20. Repose (Elegy) in E Major
21. March in D Minor
4 Improvisations
22. Improvisation No. 1 in E Minor
23. Improvisation No. 2 in C Major
24. Improvisation No. 3 in B-Flat Minor
25. Improvisation No. 4 in F Minor
26. Den’ rozhdeniya kompozitora (the Composer’s Birthday) [with narration]
27. Den’ rozhdeniya kompozitora (the Composer’s Birthday) [without narration]
The piano music of Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915) is one of Russian’s hidden secrets. Student and friend of Tchaikovsky, Taneyev – a formidable pianist and composer of the front rank – has never had the attention he deserves. The CD couples a first-ever recording of the only two movements he recorded of his youthful piano concerto with more premiere recordings of music for solo piano from across his career. The Four Improvisations, composed jointly by Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Arensky and Glazunov, bring a composite first recording for all four composers. And The Composer’s Birthday, for narrator and piano, four hands, was written as a light-hearted birthday present for Tchaikovsky.