There are two kinds of people: those who have never heard of Sergey Taneyev and those who can’t get enough of him. Taneyev, as Tchaikovsky’s pupil and Scriabin’s teacher, was part of the great lineage ...

You would expect a composer who was taught by Tchaikovsky (and succeeded him as a composition teacher in the Moscow Conservatory), and who himself taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin, would be a ...

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For a composer whose approach to his craft was academic, Taneyev's String Trio, played last Saturday, seemed bewildering. There was plenty of imitative counterpoint to hang on to, yet harmonic ...

So much for preconceptions. This attractive disc of string quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and (real luxury-casting, this) cellist Christian Poltéra finds Taneyev at his most melodically engaging ...