Taneyev - Piano Concerto, Four Improvisations, The Composer’s Birthday | Toccata Classics TOCC0042

Taneyev - Piano Concerto, Four Improvisations, The Composer’s Birthday

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0042

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th November 2006

Contents

Artists

Joseph Banowetz (piano)
Adam Wodnicki (piano)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (narrator)
Russian Philharmonic of Moscow

Conductor

Thomas Sanderling

Works

Taneyev, Sergei

Allegro in E flat major
Andantino semplice
Improvisations (4)
Lullaby in B flat major
March in D minor
Piano Concerto in E Flat major
Prelude in F major
Repose (Elegy) in E major
The Composer's Birthday
Theme and Variations in C minor

Artists

Joseph Banowetz (piano)
Adam Wodnicki (piano)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (narrator)
Russian Philharmonic of Moscow

Conductor

Thomas Sanderling

About

The CD brings another important discovery from Toccata Classics: the piano music of Sergei Taneyev is one of Russia’s best-kept musical secrets. This recording marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer, on 13 November 1856. 
 
The cosmopolitan Taneyev was a student and a friend of Tchaikovsky; Scriabin and Rachmaninov were among his students when he became a director of the Moscow Conservatory in 1885. 
 
Improvisation is the first recording of a composition written jointly by Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Arensky and Glazunov – four composers premiered in one work! 
 
The narrator in The Composer’s Birthday is none other than Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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