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Evgeny Kissin does an excellent job with this well-planned recital, featuring three very different Russian composers active in the first decades of the 20th century:
Ekaterina Derzhavina’s Palexa recording of the Medtner Op. 1 Stimmungsbilder improved as it progressed, culminating in strong, supple, and well-characterized accounts of the final four
Sergei Rachmaninov adored how Benno Moiseiwitsch played his music, and the recordings that lead off this reissue tell you why. Moiseiwitsch had it all: a
Nikolai Medtner’s fortunes have risen on disc insofar as his solo piano works are concerned, while his substantial violin output remains relatively obscure. One explanation
The 1901 Steinway that Severin von Eckardstein uses throughout his MDG Medtner recital appears to be the same instrument heard in Jean-Eflam Bavouzet’s Ravel and
How fitting for Hyperion to feature Hamish Milne in a milestone release that gathers all of Nikolai Medtner’s Skazki (Fairy Tales) in one collection. After
You know you’ve got a winner on your hands when a performance of a piece you know by heart and already own in dozens of
Nikolai Medtner’s Sonata-Reminiscenza (Op. 38 No. 1) and Sonata Tragica (Op. 39 No. 5) are components of the composer’s Op. 38 and Op. 39 “Forgotten
Pianist Irina Ossipova admirably navigates the burly textures of Medtner’s Forgotten Melodies, while her impulsive temperament and capacity to sustain their most note-laden climaxes are
Nikolai Medtner’s three piano concertos, like those of his close friend and countryman Sergei Rachmaninov, call upon soloist and orchestra to be equal partners rather
