You would expect a composer who was taught by Tchaikovsky (and succeeded him as a composition teacher in the Moscow Conservatory), and who himself taught Rachmaninov and Scriabin, would be a ...

So much for preconceptions. This attractive disc of string quintets from the Gringolts Quartet and (real luxury-casting, this) cellist Christian Poltéra finds Taneyev at his most melodically engaging ...