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

Inspired by a poem by Aleksey Tolstoy, Taneyev' cantata John of Damascus was the first work that the self-critical Russian composer deemed worthy of an opus number, it's sublime music drawing on an... 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.

The Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), who lost his family due to National Socialism, fled to Russia and, again, was later subjected to Stalinist persecution, was one of the... more

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

Guided by Tchaikovsky' influence, Anton Arensky' neglected Violin Concerto is notable for it's rich vein of melody and delicacy of orchestration.

Treated 'like a son' by Wilhelm Furtwangler and admired by Toscanini as both composer and conductor, Paul Kletzki was active as a composer between 1921 and 1942, relinquishing this creative outlet to... more