SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV

 

Suite de concert, Cantata Ioann Damaskin

 

Cantata: Ioann Damaskin (John of Damascus), Op. 1 (1884)

Suite de concert, Op. 28 (1909)

 

Ilya Kaler - Violin

 

Gnesin Academy Chorus / Alexander Soloviev

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling

 

Inspired by a poem by Aleksey Tolstoy, Taneyev’s cantata John of Damascus was the first work that the self-critical Russian composer deemed worthy of an opus number, its sublime music drawing on an ancient sacred chant woven into rich passages of expressive counterpoint. A quarter of a century later, the virtuosic and scintillating Suite de concert, Taneyev’s first work for solo violin and orchestra, was also successfully premièred.

 

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