On tonight's show:
Colorado College Summer Music Festival
Charley anticipates next week's Colorado College Summer Music Festival benefit and talks with pianist John Novacek about Tchaikovsky's pupil, Sergei Taneyev, followed by a 2008 performance of his Piano Quintet from the Colorado College Summer Music Festival.
Sergei Taneyev: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30
John Novacek, piano
Jonathan Crow, violin
Mark Fewer, violin
Toby Appel, viola
Bion Tsang, cello
recorded on 6/29/08
CU at Boettcher
Charley anticipates David Korevaar's appearance at the “CU at Boettcher” concert tomorrow.
Frédéric Chopin: Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 25 No. 6 (Thirds),
Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 25 No. 7 (Cello)
Etude in D flat major, Op. 25 No. 8
David Korevaar, piano
KVOD Performance Studio: recorded on 6/24/08
Produced by Martin Skavish
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
A pupil of Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein, Taneyev gave the first Russian performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. When Tchaikovsky resigned from the Moscow Conservatory, it was Taneyev who succeeded him. By 1885 he was director of the Conservatory. His pupils include Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Gliere. Boris Asafiev writes that Taneyev, “like no Russian composer, lived and worked immersed in the world of ideas, in the development of abstract concepts.” He was friends with Rimsky-Korsakov, Tolstoy and Turgenev. He was interested in Esperanto and set several vocal works to Esperanto texts.
©2010 Charley Samson
