IDAGIO | Taneyev: Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 22 - Borodin: Piano Trio in D Major 747313356171

Featuring

Delta Piano Trio
Sergei Taneyev
Alexander Borodin

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Performer Biography

The Delta Piano Trio has won several awards, including first prize at the Stasys Vainiunas International Chamber Music Competition in Lithuania and the Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition in Italy.

Composer Biography

Taneyev, a composer on this album, was a highly influential teacher whose former pupils included Scriabin, Glière, and Rachmaninov.

Composer Biography

Taneyev, whose Piano Trio is on this album, succeeded Tchaikovsky as professor of harmony and orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory in 1878.

Performer Biography

The Delta Piano Trio, the performers on this album, was founded in 2013 in Salzburg, Austria, by three Dutch musicians: violinist Gerard Spronk, cellist Irene Enzlin, and pianist Vera Kooper.

Historical Context

Borodin, a composer on this album, was a distinguished analytical chemist and a member of 'The Five' (also known as the Mighty Handful), a group of Russian nationalist composers.

Composer Biography

Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, another composer on this album, was the illegitimate son of a Georgian prince and was given the name of one of his father's serfs.

Composer Biography

Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, a composer featured on this album, was a student of both Nikolay Rubinstein, the director of the Moscow Conservatory, and Tchaikovsky.