Sergey Taneyev was a monumental figure of late 19th-century Russian music. He was a student of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, and became teacher to Rachmaninov and Scriabin. Thomas Sanderling's... more

Known to Tchaikovsky as the 'Russian Brahms' and to Rachmaninov as 'a master composer a pinnacle of musical Moscow', Sergey Taneyev was one of the most highly regarded and influential musical figures... more

The Temple of Apollo at Delphi is the best-known excerpt from Taneyev' only opera, Oresteia, the mammoth overture to which has all the force of a Romantic symphonic poem. His Overture on a Russian... more

A pupil of Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky, and a teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Sergey Taneyev was a monumental figure in Russian music of the second half of the nineteenth century.