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Friday, June 22, 2018

Anton Arensky; Sergei Taneyev - Violin Concertos (Ilya Gringolts)


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Composer: Anton Arensky; Sergei Taneyev
  1. Arensky - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: Allegro -
  2. Arensky - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: Adagio non troppo - Allegro -
  3. Arensky - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: Tempo di valse -
  4. Arensky - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: Poco meno mosso - Tempo I - Cadenza - Tempo I
  5. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Prelude: Grave
  6. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Gavotte: Allegro moderato
  7. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Märchen (Tale): Andantino
  8. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Theme: Andantino
  9. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variation I: Allegro moderato
  10. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variation II: Allegro energico
  11. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variation III: Tempo di valse
  12. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variation IV: Fuga doppia: Allegro molto
  13. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variation V: Presto scherzando
  14. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variation VI: Tempo di mazurka: Allegro con fuoco
  15. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Theme and variations: Variazione finale e coda: Andante
  16. Taneyev - Suite de concert, Op. 28: Tarantella. Presto - Più presto

Ilya Gringolts, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Date: 2008
Label: Hyperion
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67642

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Review

Compelling performances of Romantic concertos from Russia’s Silver Age

Though each is problematic in terms of the concert repertoire, these two products of Russia’s Silver Age go well together on disc. Both composers were friends of Tchaikovsky, both taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin, and both their reputations have suffered somewhat from their place in between those generations. Neither of these works is quite the best of them, though both make fine violinistic vehicles, as you might expect from their dedications to the Joachim pupil Leopold Auer.

Arensky’s Concerto is a continuous, four-inone, 20-minute movement, Mendelssohnian in style, elegantly turned at every stage, and with a relatively undemanding solo part that would be perfect for students looking for something other than Bruch to limber up on. Taneyev’s Suite is far more ambitious, not to say hybrid in form, encompassing a neo-Baroque Prelude and Gavotte, a Schumannesque “folktale”, a Theme with seven variations and coda (shades of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations), and a final Tarantella, all in a 40-minute structure that needs a soloist of outstanding technical command and expressive range.

Ilya Gringolts is fine advocate for both works, combining brilliance and idiomatic sensitivity, and enjoying fine support from Volkov and the BBC Scottish. Phrase-for-phrase in the Taneyev, Oistrakh’s 1956 recording makes me listen more intently and persuades me more fully that the work needs to be as long as it is. But then no violinist of our day could withstand comparison with that classic account. Gringolts and team are at least the equals of Kuusisto and his Finns, and their approach to the Arensky is more natural than that of Trostiansky and Co. In short, another superbly conceived and truthfully recorded addition to Hyperion’s “Romantic Violin Concerto” series.

-- David Fanning, Gramophone

More reviews:
ClassicsToday  ARTISTIC QUALITY: 8 / SOUND QUALITY: 9
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Apr09/Arensky_cda67642.htm


http://www.allmusic.com/album/arensky-violin-concerto-op-54-taneyev-suite-de-concert-op-28-mw0001946550

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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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Ilya Gringolts (born 2 July 1982 in Leningrad) is a Russian violinist and composer. Gringolts studied violin in St. Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi. He then attended the Juilliard School, and studied violin with Itzhak Perlman for 3 years. Gringolts is currently on the music faculty of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. He founded the Gringolts Quartet in 2008 and plays first violin in the quartet. Gringolts plays the "ex-Kiesewetter" Stradivarius violin, loaned to him by the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He has made commercial recordings for such labels as Onyx and Deutsche Grammophon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Gringolts
http://ilyagringolts.com/

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