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The Gringolts Quartet, Christian Poltéra - Taneyev, Glazunov: String Quintets (2016)

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The Gringolts Quartet, Christian Poltéra - Taneyev, Glazunov: String Quintets (2016)

The Gringolts Quartet, Christian Poltéra - Taneyev, Glazunov: String Quintets (2016)
MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) | 01:05:04 | 160 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS

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 composers of the period was the creation of a national musical idiom based on Russian folk song, and to them 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: in his worklist the Quintet in A major appears between the third and the fourth of his seven string quartets. 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, at whose St Petersburg residence the piece was first performed. 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 Taneyevs 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 ensembles first appearance on the BIS label, in a programme that is in turn elegant, lyrical and passionate.

The Gringolts Quartet, Christian Poltéra - Taneyev, Glazunov: String Quintets (2016)

Track List:

Taneyev, String Quintet No. 1 in G Major, Op. 14
1. I. Allegro con spirito 11:28
2. II. Vivace con fuoco 05:03
3. III. Tema con variazioni: Tema 00:50
4. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 1 01:12
5. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 2 01:18
6. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 3 01:22
7. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 4 01:23
8. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 5 01:44
9. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 6 02:04
10. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 7 01:18
11. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 8 02:16
12. III. Tema con variazioni: Variation 9 - Variation 10 06:16

Glazunov, String Quintet in A Major, Op. 39
13. I. Allegro 08:28
14. II. Scherzo: Allegro moderato 05:51
15. III. Andante sostenuto 06:53
16. IV. Finale: Allegro moderato 07:38

Performers:
Gringolts Quartet: Ilya Gringolts violin, Anahit Kurtikyan violin, Silvia Simionescu viola, Claudius Herrmann cello
Christian Poltera (Cello II)

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