Taneyev & Glazunov: String Quintets

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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 and Glazunov at his... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

Release Date: 26th Feb 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2177
Label: BIS
Length: 66 minutes

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Taneyev, S: String Quintet in G major, Op. 14

Work length36:36

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Christian Poltéra
Gringolts Quartet
Recorded: December 2014
Recording Venue: SRF Studio, Zurich, Switzerland

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length11:30

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II. Vivace con fuoco

Track length5:08

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IIIa. Tema. Andantino

Track length0:51

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IIIb. Variation 1

Track length1:11

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IIIc. Variation 2

Track length1:18

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IIId. Variation 3

Track length1:23

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IIIe. Variation 4

Track length1:23

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IIIf. Variation 5

Track length1:44

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IIIg. Variation 6

Track length2:03

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IIIh. Variation 7

Track length1:17

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IIIi. Variation 8

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IIIj. Variations 9 & 10

Track length6:31

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Glazunov: String Quintet Op.39

Work length29:24

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Christian Poltéra
Gringolts Quartet
Recorded: December 2014
Recording Venue: SRF Studio, Zurich, Switzerland

I. Allegro

Track length8:32

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II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato

Track length5:56

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III. Andante sostenuto

Track length6:54

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IV. Finale. Allegro moderato

Track length8:02

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Fine works by any standards, the two string quintets on this disc become even more significant in light of the marginal role accorded to chamber music in the flowering of Russian music during the second half of the 19th century. The common goal of many Russian composers of the period was the creation of a national musical idiom based on Russian folk song, for whom chamber music seemed far too abstract as well as too closely associated with German traditions. There were of course exceptions, and Alexander Glazunov is an obvious example: never a dogmatic nationalist he was himself a competent amateur cellist who learned his craft by playing chamber music, and composed a number of chamber works, including the Quintet in A major. Glazunov was supported in his work as a composer of chamber pieces by the legendary Mitrofan Belyayev – a lumber magnate turned patron of the arts who founded the important Belaieff musical publishing company. Belyayev was a keen viola player, and it is not unlikely that Glazunov chose to begin his quintet with a solo for that instrument as a tribute to his benefactor. Although Belyayev was most intimately involved with the composers based in St Petersburg, he also published music by the more western-oriented Moscow-composers, including Sergei Taneyev’s passionate, but at the same time tightly constructed String Quintet No. 1 in G major. Taneyev was a friend of Tchaikovsky – who greatly respected his advice while also fearing it – as well as the teacher of Rachmaninov and Nikolai Medtner. The Gringolts Quartet has invited the cellist Christian Poltéra to join them on this, the ensemble’s first appearance on the BIS label, in a programme that is in turn elegant, lyrical and passionate.

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April 2016

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 and Glazunov at his most ideally proportioned…afficionados of either composer will certainly want to hear this recording - and it would make a perfect entry point to the chamber music of Russia's Silver Age

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