Thomas Sanderling - Taneyev: Symphonies Nos.2 & 4 (2010)

Known to Tchaikovsky as the ‘Russian Brahms’ and to Rachmaninov as ‘a master composer [and] a pinnacle of musical Moscow’, Sergey Taneyev was one of the most highly regarded and influential musical figures of his time. His unfinished Symphony No. 2, begun while Taneyev was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire, was recognised by his teacher, Tchaikovsky, as a work of considerable promise. It is heard here in Vladimir Blok’s edition, first performed in 1977. Taneyev’s Symphony No. 4, composed twenty years later, is a large-scale masterpiece considered by many to be his finest orchestral work. Thomas Sanderling’s first disc in the Naxos Taneyev series (Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 / 8.570336) was praised by The Guardian for its ‘strongly characterised performances’.


Tracks:

Symphony No.2 in B flat major (completed by Vladimir Blok)
01. Introduction and Allegro
02. Andante
03. Allegro

Symphony No.4 in C minor, op.12
01. Allegro molto
02. Adagio
03. Scherzo. Vivace
04. Finale. Allegro energico - Molto maestoso

Personnel:

Composed By – Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev
Conductor – Thomas Sanderling
Orchestra – Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra