Sergei Taneyev ‒ Prelude and Fugue, Op.29
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915), Prelude and Fugue in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 29 (1910)
Performed by Lilya Zilberstein
00:00 - Prelude, Andante
03:45 - Fugue, Allegro vivace e con fuoco
The Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor is the only work for solo piano to which Taneyev gave an opus number. It is a culmination of his life-long research into early music and counterpoint, and its chromaticism and polyphonic textures are elements of his mature style. The work was written in memory of the composer’s nurse, Pelageya Vasil’yevna Chizhova, who had looked after Taneyev since his birth, and did not leave his side until her own death. When she died, Taneyev mourned her ‘with real tears’, as Tolstoy’s wife Sophya wrote in her diary. These tears and emotions are embodied in the melancholy and pensive Prelude that resembles Chopin’s nocturnes, and thereby pays homage to a composer Taneyev greatly admired. The fiery, agitated Fugue is a complex polyphonic work that clearly demonstrates why Tchaikovsky, the critic Laroche, and many others after them, thought Taneyev to be the greatest contrapuntal master in Russia. The masterful, well-crafted Prelude and Fugue is considered to be the best example of Taneyev’s writing for solo piano. It is also significant because it is the only representative of the genre until Zaderatsky and Shostakovich wrote their collections of preludes and fugues later in the century.
Geez, this is one of the most brutally awesome compositions I've heard in a while.
2:18 and 6:17 send chills up the spine!
Totally badass music making, both by composer and performer :) It reminds me of Hamelin's last etude "Prelude and Fugue" and I cannot help wondering whether Hamelin had Taneyev's piece in mind when he wrote his.
I remember reading that he didn’t know the Taneyev when he wrote his own prelude and fugue. But discovered the eerie similarities later (same key etc)
Hamelin writes in the liner notes to his etudes:
"I experienced a rather uneasy moment when, some time after completing the piece, I came across Sergei Taneyev's Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op 29. I was alarmed to see that there were some startling similarities between the two fugues: same metre, same key (enhamonically), same pianistic terrains, and a very similar fugue subject. Please be assured that if this were other than mere coincidence, I would be honest enough to admit it!"
very similar ... guess taneyev visited the hamelins concert when he performed his masterpiece...
@@rainermartinwolke9023 Hm? Taneyev died before Hamelin was even born (by around 46 years).
@@Godzilla-xt4nd that was a joke obviously 😁
This prelude and fugue is a masterpiece which deserves to be drawn off the darkness in which it lies misrbly.
Gérard Begni It was rather fashionable to play in USSR higher institutions in 80s.
@@vahagnvardanyan I know rhat. I visited USSR many rimes in that suprising period, often escaping to the concert halls.
@@gerardbegni2806 You are quite lucky. I wasn't born back than. My professors would tell me of two performances of this piece, none of which survive in recordings, yet are embedded deep in their memory. Both interpretations were by composers Arno Babajanyan and Gayane Tchebotarian (who studied with Kushnarev, who was in turn a student of Taneyev).
I've been a classical musician for years, and I am only now discovering Taneyev, thanks to his treatise on counterpoint. My education is lacking, but I'm trying to rectify that. Although his style is very different, may I also recommend Myaskovky, especially the 12th Symphony, 1st piano sonata, and violin concerto.
KEEP HANDS AND FEET CLEAR OF ALL MOVING PARTS! I can imagine a piano bursting into flames during a performance of this!
Lol
What an extraordinary piece! Wonderfully played, too. Taneyev wrote some amazing music which should be heard.
A really great work. Thanks for posting it.
Insanely difficult and beautiful piano piece
What a cheeky ending! Loved it!
Those harmonies are just unreal🤯
Taneev - a master composer. Lilya - a master pianist. Bravo!
Bravo music grandiose genial super
Superb!
Pow !!! Yes wow !! Great score !
its as though scriabn mind melded with Bach.
As a matter of fact, Scriabin was one of Taneyev's students.
love it
Really complex piece of music. If jazz is music for musicians, than this piece is just for composers.
" 'Architecture,' said Hegel, 'Is frozen music, and this might rightly be called defrosted architecture' " ---- Michael Flanders (1924-1972), on music by his friend and collaborator, Donald Swann.
That quote might appropriately be applied to this Prelude and Fugue as well, but as an expression of awe rather than comic deflation.
There was a time when this might not have been such the case.
Van Cliburn should learn this in several days when he came to Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958.
God. Why can my teacher just give me some Phillip Glass or Poulenc. Preparing myself for this
I'm not the biggest fan of the interpretation of the prélude (not enough dynamic or emotional contrast, in my opinion), but the fugue is incredible.
Let's see, Russian "andante" is fast, in fact here it should be twice as fast as this interpretation of the prelude. The prelude sounds great played in intended tempo (composer's own metronome marking).
Can I just say: " WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"?
Played this reasonably loud...a very good if not great work.
let me say, it's almost Congenially, because I'm not so good musician to say, It's obviously Congenial, but I'm so unfear to say about so great musician pianist - I just can say like a hearer - This performance is about frost on the skin - It's
awesome! I rehear It again and again - Exactly this performance
Sounds like a Russian Reger ..
The most accurate comparison. I shall add: the rhythm is so complex and broken into unpredictable beats, and the dynamics are so aggressive, rhythmically and dynamically, this is Stanchinsky.
6:45
whaaat
WARNING: KEEP HANDS AND FEET CLEAR OF ALL MOVING PARTS
A wonderful masterpiece. The influence of Liszt is obvious. The prelude seems to announce Scriabin's findings.
Gérard Begni you say the influence of Liszt is obvious but I can’t immediately find a source that states him as an inspiration of Taneyev nor can I hear Liszt in the piece itself. Scriabin, definitely though
@@moe5201 I agree u^pn the fact that it is closer to Scribin's first manner, but you know, the hatmonic sysytem od=f Sctaibain in his irst period v closely derived ftom Chopin and Liszt. Te. Yjese features are more apparent in the fantasy of the Prelude rather than in the strictness of the fugue. But I do not believe that there was a dirext influence of early Scriabin on Tanetev 'check the dates)? Rather I am pronr to thiink thet these two comosers drawn comparable harmonic conclusions from Chopin and Liszr (not Wagenr).
@@gerardbegni2806 Scriabin was actually a student of Taneyev's. Taneyev was considered one of the best music teachers in the russian tradition, especially in his teaching of counterpoint.
@@Godzilla-xt4nd I know that. Do you know Tanejev's prelude and fugue in G3 minor for piano.
She pretty much ignores the dynamic markings in the Fugue.
une musique avortée
dislike the performance- in the fugue, where is the difference between p and mf????
russian brahms? more like russian chopin haha
I sincerely hope you're joking! This is Russian late-Romanticism at its very best.
This bears no comparison to any other piece...EVER!
This is unique in the history of music.