Medtner: Piano Works Vol. 5

On this CD:

1. Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5
Composed by Nikolay Medtner
Performed by Geoffrey Tozer

2. Sonata romantica for piano in B-flat minor, Op. 53/1
Composed by Nikolay Medtner
Performed by Geoffrey Tozer

3. Sonata minacciosa for piano in F minor, Op.53/2
Composed by Nikolay Medtner
Performed by Geoffrey Tozer

Tracks:

Forgotten Melodies Op.38: I Danza Graziosa
Forgotten Melodies Op.38: II Danza Festiva
Forgotten Melodies Op.38: IV Canzona Fluviala
Forgotten Melodies Op.38: V Danza Rustica
Forgotten Melodies Op.38: VI Canzona Serenata
Forgotten Melodies Op.38: VII Danza Silvestra
Forgotten Melodies Op.38: VIII Alla Reminiscenza
Fairy Tales Op.51: No.2 In A Minor
Fairy Tales Op.51: No.3 In A Minor
Fairy Tales Op.51: No.4 In F Sharp Minor
Fairy Tales Op.51: No.5 In F Sharp Minor
Fairy Tales Op.51: No.6 In G Major
Sonata Triad Op.11: No.1 In A Flat Major
Sonata Triad Op.11: No.2 In D Minor
Sonata Triad Op.11: No.3 In C Major

Customer Reviews:

Tozer is brilliant!.......2005-01-19

I am a big fan of Andre-Hamelin and agree that Tozer is lesser-known than Hamelin as a previous reviewer said. But it does not damage the brilliancy of Tozer at all. He has a great sense of structure and his phrasing is luminous. His talent as a virtuosi makes it possible to challenge this extremly difficult works and the result is great. Bravo for Tozer!!

Uknown Greatness!!!!.......2002-05-12

He might not be a very well known composer but I can truly say that these pieces are something beautiful!! I also have the music book of Medtner and its a good workout on the keyboard, he is worth giving a listen, NO DOUBT!!

He's not Marc-André Hamelin.......2000-03-06

Geoffrey Tozer deserves our applause for bringing the solo music of Medtner to our attention in modern times. But the performances on this disc have been superseded by the incredible traversal, in a boxed set, of the sonatas plus other pieces, by Marc-André Hamelin, who is the most amazing pianist in this sort of repertoire before the public today.

Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery, 2000, Vol. 1

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Five Excellent Pianists and a Feast of Musical Delights!
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Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery, 2000, Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Mip / Miami Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005R5L8
Release Date: 2001-10-23

Tracks:

Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 1 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 2 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 3 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 4 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 5 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 6 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 7 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 8 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 9 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 10 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 11 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 10 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 13 - Piotr Anderszewski
Fourteen Bagatelles, Op.6: Bagatelle, Op. 6 No. 14 - Piotr Anderszewski
Prelude And Fugue In G-sharp Minor - Denis Burstein
Prelude And Fugue In G-sharp Minor - Denis Burstein
, Op.20 No.1 In B-Flat Minor: Fairy Tale, Op. 20 No. 1 In B-Flat Minor - Denis Burstein
Fairy Tale, Op.20 No.2 In B Minor: Fairy Tale, Op. 20 No. 2 In B Minor - Denis Burstein
Fairy Tale, Op.26 No.3 In F Minor: Fairy Tale, Op. 26 No. 3 In F Minor - Denis Burstein
Prelude Op.27 No.1 - Denis Burstein
Prelude Op.27 No.2 - Denis Burstein
Etude Op.42 No.4: Etude Op. 42 No. 4 - Denis Burstein
Liebesfreud - Denis Burstein

Tracks:

Sonata In G Minor K. 8, L. 488 - Kemal Gekic
Sonata In F Minor, K 519, L. 475 - Kemal Gekic
Etude No.2 In E-flat Major - Kemal Gekic
Sonata No.1 in D Minor Op. 28: Sonata No.1 in D Minor Op. 28: Allegro Moderato - Kemal Gekic
Vocalise - Ilya Itin
Polka - Ilya Itin
Prelude Op. 23 No. 1 In F-sharp Minor - Ilya Itin
Prelude Op. 32 No. 6 In F Minor - Ilya Itin
Prelude Op. 32 No.7 In F Major - Ilya Itin
Prelude Op.23 No. 10 In G-flat Major - Ilya Itin
Prelude Op. 23 No. 7 In C Minor - Ilya Itin
Prelude Op. 32 No. 13 In D-flat Major - Ilya Itin
Studies On Etudes Of F. Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 2 'Ignis Fautuus' - Francesco Libetta
Studies On Etudes Of F. Chopin: Etude Op. 25 No. 2 - Francesco Libetta
Studies On Etudes Of F. Chopin: Etude Op. 25 No. 9 'Badinage' - Francesco Libetta
La Soiree Dans Grenade - Francesco Libetta
Etude In Form Of A Waltz - Francesco Libetta
Grande Sonate Op. 33: Grande Sonate Op. 33: First Movement - Francesco Libetta

Customer Reviews:

Five Excellent Pianists and a Feast of Musical Delights!.......2005-12-29

The Miami International Piano Festival of Discovery is well named: this two CD set offers fresh young talent in a variety of music played with all the drama of a competition. It is very well recorded and contains some truly magical moments.

There are five pianists represented here and their choices of competition entries in many ways helps define their abilities and musicality. Piotr Anderszewski offers the Bartok Opus 6 Bagatelles, electing to explore all 14 of these little pieces to keep with the unity of Bartok's conception. They are models of clean definitive performances. Denis Burstein on the other hand selects various works by Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Medtner, and Taneyev showing his penchant for the obscure as well as the well known. Kemal Gekic programs Scarlatti with Liszt and Rachmaninov and offers valid stances on each. Ilya Itin opts of an all Rachmaninov collection from the lovely 'Vocalize' through six of the Preludes. Francesco Libetta closes with paraphrases on Chopin by Godowsky and works by Debussy, Saint-Saens and Alkan.

Of interest the pianist who has become most popular with the public since this 2000 year competition is Piotr Anderszewski, but from the experience of listening to the entire group, one would expect more will come from the other four, too! A delightful set of recordings. Grady Harp, December 05

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Medtner: Piano Works Vol. 5

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00000AFTS
Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

Sonata, Op. 5 In F Minor - F-Moll - fa mineur: I Allegro
Sonata, Op. 5 In F Minor - F-Moll - fa mineur: II Intermezzo: Allegro -
Sonata, Op. 5 In F Minor - F-Moll - fa mineur: III Largo -
Sonata, Op. 5 In F Minor: IV Finale: Allegro risoluto
Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 No. 1 In B Flat Minor: Romanza: Adantino con moto, ma sempre espressivo -
Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 No. 1 In B Flat Minor: II Scherzo: Allegro -
Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 No. 1 In B Flat Minor: III Meditazione: Andante con moto -
Sonata Romantica, Op. 53 No. 1 In B Flat Minor: IV Finale: Allegro non troppo
Sonata minacciosa, Op. 53 No. 2, In F Minor: Allegro sostenuto, concentrando -
Sonata minacciosa, Op. 53 No. 2, In F Minor: L'istesso tempo (ma con entusiasmo) -
Sonata minacciosa, Op. 53 No. 2, In F Minor: (Fuga) Sempre al rigore di tempo -
Sonata minacciosa, Op. 53 No. 2, In F Minor: Tempo I, concentrando -
Sonata minacciosa, Op. 53 No. 2, In F Minor: A tempo (con entusiasme) -
Sonata minacciosa, Op. 53 No. 2, In F Minor: Coda: Sempre animanto (al rigore di tempo)

The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 6

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Very impressive recordings of Medtners piano works by Tozer

The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 6

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000G4ND
Release Date: 1999-01-19

Tracks:

Piano Sonata, Op.30 In A Minor: Allegro risoluto - Poco a poco piu mosso - Coda: Allegro molto
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39: 1 Meditazione
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39: 2 Romanza
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39: 3 Primavera 'Fruehlingsmaerchen' Vivace
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39: 4 Canzona matinata - Allegretto cantando
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 39: 5 Sonata tragica, Allegro risoluto
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 40: 1 Danza col canto, Allegretto
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 40: 2 Danza sinfonica, Introduzione: Allegro meditamente - Allegro scherzando
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 40: 3 Danza fiorata, Tempo capriccioso
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 40: 4 Danza jubilosa, Allegro alla breve e molto sfrenatamente
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 40: 5 Danza ondulata, Con moto tranquillo e ondulotorio
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 40: 6 Danza ditirambica

Customer Reviews:

Very impressive recordings of Medtners piano works by Tozer.......2000-02-27

Keeping the review short, it must be stated that Geoffrey Tozer's interpretation of Medtners works is sensitive and always brings out the melody and structure of the works in a clear way. Although it must have been quite a Job till now, new volumes in the series are very welcome!

The Complete Solo Piano Recordings of Nicolas Medtner, Vol 3

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The Complete Solo Piano Recordings of Nicolas Medtner, Vol 3

Manufacturer: Apr UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00030ER60
Release Date: 2004-11-09

Tracks:

Canzona Matinata, Op.39/4
Allegro Risoluto
(Poco Quazi Recitativo)
Tempo
Arabesque In A Major, Op. 7/2 (Tragedy Fragment)
Allegretto
Introduzione Mesto
Finale Allegro
Hymn In Praise Of Toil, Op.49/1 (Before Work)
Novelle In C Major, Op.17/2
Marchen (Skazka/Fairy Tale) In D Major, Op.51/1
Marchen (Skazka/Fairy Tale) In F Major, Op.26/3
Primavera, Op.39/3

Medtner: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Vol. 1

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An Essential Medtner Recording

Medtner: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Apr UK
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000FDC3
Release Date: 1998-11-24

Customer Reviews:

An Essential Medtner Recording.......2005-03-31

Nicolai Medtner, a contemporary and friend of Rachmaninoff, is perhaps the greatest composer for piano since Beethoven. A virtuoso concert pianist of the highest caliber in his own right, Medtner composed relentlessly tonal piano music of great beauty and intense rhythmic complexity at a time when atonal music was coming into vogue in the Western art music world. Although stunningly beautiful, his compositions were thought to be too "old fashioned" in the West and so were brushed aside by "serious" music scholars, causing Medtner to live in poverty during his exile in the West following the Bolshevik Revolution. Nevertheless, Medtner's Russian musical contemporaries fervently admired both his compositions and his piano playing; Glazunov even called Medtner something like "The Guardian of Eternal Art."

This CD presents for the first time Medtner's earliest commercial audio recordings, made for Columbia Records in 1930/31 but never released. These are transfers from Medtner's own test pressings on shellac discs; the original masters were long since destroyed. Lovingly cleaned up and restored, these recordings are the real deal, an authentic revelation of Medtner's interpretive intent in his compositions (compositions which have no established performance tradition in the West). Not only do they represent an invaluable resource for pianists who wish to tackle Medtner's compositions, they are wonderfully enjoyable to listen to, tremendous recordings of some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.

Now, obviously, these are archival, not modern, recordings. The restoration presents them beautifully, but they are still cleaned up transfers from questionably preserved 78s so don't expect perfect clarity.

Aside from Medtner's own compositions, the disc also includes Medtner's performance of one Beethoven piano sonata, no.23 in f, op.57, which is masterful.

Listening to Medtner's piano playing is like opening a door into a vanished world, the Late-Romantic musical world from which sprang Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz. Listening to this recording, I feel like I am touching the 19th century directly. The wild variations in tempo and dynamics in Medtner's piano playing are a revelation, both enraging and delightful simultaneously. Modern Western piano performances seem both self indulgent and rhythmically square in comparison. And Medtner's own music... Stunning. Fantastic.

This is an awesome recording which I listen to again and again. Highly Recommended.

Russian Piano School vol.19: Edvard Syomin: Godowsky/Chopin/Stanchinsky/Medtner/Eiges/Albéniz/Busoni

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A must

Russian Piano School vol.19: Edvard Syomin: Godowsky/Chopin/Stanchinsky/Medtner/Eiges/Albéniz/Busoni

Manufacturer: Melodiya
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Renaissance - No. 3: Menuet In A Minor (Allegretto Grazioso)
Renaissance - No. 1: Sarabande In E Major (Largo, Ma Non Troppo)
Renaissance - No. 6: Tambourin In E Minor (Allegro)
Souvenir De Paganini, B 37 - Variations In A Major
Bereceuse In D-Flat Major, Op. 57
3 Preludes - In C-Sharp Minor (Lento)
3 Preludes - In D Major (Con Moto)
3 Preludes - In E-Flat Minor (Adagio)
5 Preludes - In C Minor (Andante)
5 Preludes - In A-Flat Major/F Minor (Lento Espressivo)
5 Preludes - In B-Flat Minor
5 Preludes - In B Minor
5 Preludes - In C [Minor] (Largo)
Fairy-Tales, Op. 20
Fairy-Tales, Op. 20
Sonata-Toccata (No. 4) In F-Sharp Minor/E Major, Op. 15
Sonata-Toccata (No. 4) In F-Sharp Minor/E Major, Op. 15
Sonata-Toccata (No. 4) In F-Sharp Minor/E Major, Op. 15
Navarra - Bravura Fantasia - Allegro Non Troppo
Suite Espana - Tango In D Major, Op. 165, No. 2
Chamber Fantasia On Bizet's Opera Carmen - Allegro Decisio
Kunstlerleben - Symphonic Metamorphoses On Johan StrauB's Waltz

Customer Reviews:

A must.......2000-10-13

Who the hell is this guy? That is one's first reaction; even amongst the learned cognoscenti of internet newsgroups, I never heard of Edvard Syomin. Moreover, looking at the cover, where he looks eerily like Ringo Starr, one is inclined to wonder whether BMG's scouts had drunk too much Stolichnaya when putting their second set of the Russian Piano School together.

Then you play the disk.

I don't think Syomin is another Richter technically. The playing is smudgy here and there. But his phrasing, his voicing, his colour, and his sense of involvement are revelatory even by the exulted standards of the best Russian pianists. The disk opens with Godowsky's Rameau reworkings, which have a warmth and grace that are matchless. The Chopin is immaculately sung. The works by Eiges and Stanchinsky, rarely recorded, are interesting, and one would not hope for a more sympathetic, atmospheric performance of either. The Medtner and the Albeniz are rich in colour and local tang. The big works to close, the Busoni Carmen Fantasy and the Godowsky Kunsterleben, are wholly superb. They are technically very impressive, but one is far more enthralled by the sense of drama and conviction in works what will, all too easily, sound vapid virtuoso fodder. Compare Hamelin's otherwise excellent Carmen Fantasy with Syomin's, and you register what Syomin has to offer as a pianist.

Tracks:

Romance In F, Op.51 No.5 - Alexander Goldenweiser
Meditation In D, Op.72 No.5 - Alexander Goldenweiser
Valse Sentimentale In f, Op.51 No.6 - Alexander Goldenweiser
Dialogue In B, Op.72 No.8 - Alexander Goldenweiser
'Sari,' Op.28 No.4, From 'Forgotten Rhythms' - Alexander Goldenweiser
Mazurka In C, From 'Petite Suite' - Alexander Goldenweiser
Barcarolle In g, Op.10 No.3, From 'Morceaux De Salon' - Alexander Goldenweiser
Novella In c, Op. 17 No. 2 - Alexander Goldenweiser
Song And Dance From 'Kabardino-Balkarsky Songs And Dances' - Alexander Goldenweiser
Ste No.2 For Two Pianos, Op.17 (To A.B. Goldenweiser): 1. Introduction. Alla Marcia - Goldenweiser/Ginsburg
Ste No.2 For Two Pianos, Op.17 (To A.B. Goldenweiser): 2. Waltz. Presto - Goldenweiser/Ginsburg
Ste No.2 For Two Pianos, Op.17 (To A.B. Goldenweiser): 3. Romance. Andantino - Goldenweiser/Ginsburg
Ste No.2 For Two Pianos, Op.17 (To A.B. Goldenweiser): 4. Tarantella. Presto - Goldenweiser/Ginsburg