Name: Taneyev - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
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Polyansky provides a splendidly passionate and invigorating introduction to music that we really should know better in the West. The Fourth Symphony has always been the most popular of Taneyev's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Aug 2002
Catalogue No: CHAN9998
Label: Chandos
Length: 75 minutes

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Taneyev, S: Symphony No. 2 in B- Flat Major

Work length36:00

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Valeri Kuzmich Polyansky, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

I. Introduction and Allegro

Track length14:57

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$2.60

II. Andante

Track length13:02

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III. Allegro

Track length8:01

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Taneyev, S: Symphony No. 4 in C minor Op. 12

Work length39:21

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Valeri Kuzmich Polyansky, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

I. Allegro molto

Track length11:35

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II. Adagio

Track length12:16

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III. Scherzo. Vivace

Track length5:46

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IV. Finale. Allegro energico

Track length9:44

$1.60

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2010

Polyansky provides a splendidly passionate and invigorating introduction to music that we really should know better in the West. The Fourth Symphony has always been the most popular of Taneyev's symphonies, and with good reason.
He writes a powerful opening Allegro and a wellbuilt finale, but for all his symphonic skills here, it's in the middle two movements that the most personal music is to be found. The scherzo dances along with the vitality that many a Russian composer has brought to comparable movements, and with the rhythmic quirks that he liked so much; but it's in the Adagio that something more is discovered. Taneyev has routinely been reproached for lacking melodic distinction, sometimes with reason, but this superb movement comes close to the manner of Bruckner, or sometimes Mahler. For English ears, the sense of 'stately sorrow' serves as a reminder that the phrase was coined of his own music by Elgar.
Conductor and players make of this fine music a tragic statement, and it's here that they're at their most intense. Polyansky also produces a strong case for the Second Symphony, his sense of structure holding the rather oddly organised opening movement together, as a powerful chorale passage has to be integrated with a sonata Allegro. He doesn't play down the suggestions of Dvorák, whom Taneyev clearly found sympathetic.
This is a striking, and very well-recorded, pair of performances, well worth the attention of lovers of Russian music.

Taneyev - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4

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