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…these symphonies… have the momentum and flow of the true symphonist, particularly in these persuasive performances. Recommended with enthusiasm. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2007
Catalogue No: CHAN10390
Label: Chandos
Length: 63 minutes

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Taneyev, S: Symphony No. 1 in E minor

Work length28:48

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Valeri Kuzmich Polyansky, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

I. Allegro

Track length10:11

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II. Andantino

Track length3:35

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III. Vivace assai

Track length5:23

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length9:39

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Taneyev, S: Symphony No. 3 in D minor

Work length35:03

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Valeri Kuzmich Polyansky, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length11:21

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II. Allegro vivace alla marcia

Track length6:59

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III. Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso

Track length7:55

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IV. Allegro con brio

Track length8:48

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September 2007

…these symphonies… have the momentum and flow of the true symphonist, particularly in these persuasive performances. Recommended with enthusiasm.

2010

Taneyev's first composed symphony, in E minor, was the work of a 17-year-old student, dutifully ticking the prescribed boxes for his graduation from Moscow Conservatoire. As so often in the academic Russian tradition, the Scherzo is the most striking movement; the finale, by contrast, puts its folksong material through so many harmonic and contrapuntal routines that one almost imagines it crying for mercy.
The Third Symphony, in D minor and dedicated to Arensky, drew Tchaikovsky's praise for its musical content but also his reservations about the 'abstract' (ie non-orchestral) nature of the material. That seems a just assessment. The first movement, like Beethoven's Eroica, Schumann's Rhenish and Nielsen's Espansiva, moves in a liberally cross-accented triple metre (a useful aide-mémoire that these should all be third symphonies). It is in many ways no less ingenious than those works but never achieves lift-off in the way they do; the same goes for the Scherzo, whose strategy for integrating the Trio is resourceful but hardly revelatory. The modest Intermezzo is easy to like as a pleasantly relaxing episode, but would be more effective placed in more dramatic surroundings.
Polyansky and the Russian State Symphony have done Taneyev a superb service with these thoroughly prepared, expertly recorded performances.
The music itself may be too firmly tied to academic apron-strings to be viable in the concert hall, and the composer's verdict in not releasing them was surely the right one. But these are still need-to-know pieces for anyone interested in the Russian symphonic repertoire.

June 2007

Polyansky and the Russian State Symphony have done Taneyev a superb service with these thoroughly prepared, expertly recorded performances.

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