Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
Ciclo Grandes Orquestras Mundiais - Gulbenkian: 16 de Março de 2004, Coliseu dos Recreios.
Orquestra Nacional Russa e Coro Gulbenkian,
Mikhail Pletnev (maestro)
Sites:
arkivmusic.com (discografia)
recmusic.org (lieder)
prestoclassical.co.uk (discografia)
crisismagazine.com (artigo de opinião)
iclassics.com (discografia)
Sergei Taneyev studied with Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein. As a teacher himself, his students included: Glière, Grechaninov, Medtner and Rachmaninov. He was almost pathologically lacking in self-confidence yet as a composer he was extremely meticulous in his working methods pre-planning his often highly contrapuntal works with great exactitude. His style of composition looked towards the west and indeed, John of Damascus shows influences of Bach through Beethoven and Berlioz to Brahms.
This short choral work, without soloists, is very approachable and fuses Russian folk and liturgical music with strict Bachian counterpoint. Refined four-part fugal writing introduces the first chorus ("I travel along a path that is unknown to me). Thrilling and dread fugal music for "On that day when the trumpet resounds through the dying world…" contrasts with a predominantly mood of relative calm.
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