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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Anton Arensky; Sergei Taneyev - Piano Quintets (Piers Lane; Goldner String Quartet)


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Composer: Anton Arensky; Sergei Taneyev
  1. Taneyev - Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 1. Introduzione: Adagio mesto
  2. Taneyev - Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 2. Scherzo: Presto
  3. Taneyev - Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 3. Largo
  4. Taneyev - Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30: 4. Finale: Allegro vivace
  5. Arensky - Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51: 1. Allegro moderato
  6. Arensky - Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51: 2. Variations: Andante
  7. Arensky - Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51: 3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
  8. Arensky - Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 51: 4. Finale (in modo antico): Allegro moderato

Piers Lane, piano
Goldner String Quartet
Dene Olding, violin
Dimity Hall, violin
Irina Morozova, viola
Julian Smiles, cello

Date: 2013
Label: Hyperion
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67965

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Review

Lane and the Goldner explore Tchaikovsky’s varied influence

The shadow of Tchaikovsky is sometimes said to fall over both of these fine works; it would be fairer to suggest that some of the rays of his genius suffuse them. Taneyev was one of the few composers who studied with Tchaikovsky and also one of the rare people from whom he tolerated criticism (though even the faithful pupil could get a rap on the knuckles if he went too far). His Piano Quintet is an expansive work, warmly played here and with the subtle intelligence Taneyev demanded of himself when planning a work. Among much else, he shows how much invention can be wrought out of something as simple as a scale, hauntingly in the Largo, which David Fanning’s booklet essay perceptively describes as ‘a dialogue…between intellectual severity and expressive warmth’. There is particular brilliance in the Scherzo: like others of their colleagues, when exercising their very Russian preference for French influence over German, Taneyev and Arensky made an exception in favour of Mendelssohn.

If Taneyev’s Quintet is the more impressive, Arensky’s is perhaps the more attractive. It has the lightness of touch that he admired in Tchaikovsky, to whose influence he migrated from that of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov (thus earning himself a sniffy dismissal in the latter’s memoirs that he would soon be forgotten). The introduction of a waltz into the variation movement (on a French song) is certainly Tchaikovskian, and none the worse for that. The piano-writing is deft and delicate, excellently handled by Piers Lane and well balanced with the strings in the recording.

-- John Warrack, Gramophone

More reviews:
BBC Music Magazine  PERFORMANCE (TANEYEV): **** / PERFORMANCE (ARENSKY): ***** / RECORDING: *****
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Dec13/Taneyev_Arensky_quintets_CDA67965.htm
http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/Review/370357,taneyev-arensky-piano-quintets-piers-lane-goldner-string-quartet.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/Arensky-Taneyev-Quintets-Piers-Lane/dp/B00E0IZ05S

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Anton Arensky (12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1906) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Arensky was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Scriabin, Rachmaninov and Gretchaninov. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the greatest influence on Arensky's musical compositions. Arensky are best known for his chamber music, including two string quartets, two piano trios, and a piano quintet. Despite a long-term neglect of his music, in recent years a large number of his compositions have been recorded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Arensky

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Sergei Taneyev (November 25 [O.S. November 13] 1856 – June 19 [O.S. June 6] 1915) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. Among his teachers at the Moscow Conservatory are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composition) and Nikolai Rubinstein (piano). Taneyev's specialized field of study was counterpoint, and he was considered one of the greatest of contrapuntalists. Taneyev's compositions, including nine complete string quartets and four symphonies, reveal his mastery of classical composition technique, but many of them were considered "dry and laboured in character".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Taneyev

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Piers Lane (born 8 January 1958) is an Australian classical pianist. He graduated with a Medal of Excellence from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, where his teacher was Nancy Weir. His performance career has taken him to more than 40 countries. His concerto repertoire exceeds 75 works. Lane has an extensive discography on the Hyperion label and has also recorded for EMI, Decca, BMG, Lyrita and Unicorn-Kanchana. Lane is a well-known voice on BBC Radio 3, having written and presented more than 100 programs, including a 54-part series called The Piano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Lane

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Goldner String Quartet is an Australian string quartet formed in 1995 in honour of Richard Goldner, the founder of Musica Viva Australia. The Quartet consists of Dene Olding and Dimity Hall (violins), Irina Morozova (viola; an ex-pupil of Goldner) and Julian Smiles (cello). Olding and Morozova are married, as are Hall and Smiles. The Goldners have played throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well in the UK, USA, Korea, Finland, France and Italy. In 1997 the Goldner String Quartet made its debut at the Wigmore Hall in London, and have since appeared there regularly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldner_String_Quartet

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