The Bard Musical Festival ~ Rediscoveries
Series
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
STRING QUINTET
in G MAJOR, OP. 14
Erik
Wyrick,
Erica Kiesewetter, Nardo Poy,
Johnathan Spitz & Robert Martin
PIANO MUSIC
Repose;
Slumber Song; Prelude in F Major
Prelude & Fugue in G-sharp Minor; Andantino semplice
Todd Crow, piano
MS042899
~ $12.95
Sergei Ivanovich
Tanayev
(1856-1915) was a student of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubenstein
at the Moscow Conservatory, where he went on to become first a teacher
and later the director. He introduced many masterpieces by other Russian
composers to the music world.
His own compositions, however, are more clearly a product of the Austrian-German
romantic tradition. In the genre of chamber music, Taneyev seems to have
employed his most personal style: intimate, private, and serious. The works
on this disc reveal his skill at building large sonata structures,
as well as a keen instinct for aural colors and sonorities.
The String Quintet
in G major was written in 1901 and is dedicated to Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The
piano music generally falls into the category of short character pieces,
mostly from the composer’s early years.
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Since its founding
in 1990, the Bard Music Festival Rediscoveries Series has devoted its annual
programs to unusual in-depth explorations of major composers. For two August
weekends at the Bard College campus at Annandale-on-Hudson, and for one
fall weekend at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Bard Music Festival offers
concerts, panel discussions, and other special programs. The Wall Street
Journal places the Bard Music Festival “in the top drawer of U.S. summer
musical events.” Festival volumes are published each summer by Princeton
University Press. The composers highlighted in the festival’s first decade
include Brahms, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Schumann, Bartok, Ives, Haydn, Tchaikovsky,
Schoenberg and Taneyev.
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