3CDs
COMPACT DISC 1 (75’06) The unpublished 1931-1931 Columbia recordings & Beethoven Appassionata Sonata
1. MEDTNER Skazka in E minor Op 14 No 2 (March of the Paladin)
2. MEDTNER Skazka in B minor Op 20 No 2 (Campanella)
Recorded in Central Hall, Westminster, London, on 31 March 1930
3. MEDTNER Skazka in A major Op 51 No 3 (take 1)
4. MEDTNER Skazka in A major Op 51 No 3 (take 3)
5. MEDTNER Skazka in F sharp minor Op 51 No 5
6. MEDTNER Skazka in B flat minor Op 20 No 1
Recorded in Central Hall, Westminster, London, on 1 April 1930
7. MEDTNER Skazka in F minor Op 26 No 3
8. MEDTNER Skazka in E flat major Op 26 No 2
9. MEDTNER Skazka in A major Op 51 No 3
Recorded in Petty France Studios, London, on 11 February 1931
10. MEDTNER Hymn in praise of toil Op 49 No 1 (Before work)
11. MEDTNER Danza jubilosa No 4 of Forgotten Melodies III, Op 40
12. MEDTNER Skazka in A minor Op 51 No 2
13. MEDTNER Danza festiva No 3 of Forgotten Melodies I, Op 38
14. MEDTNER Canzona matinata No 4 of Forgotten Melodies II, Op 39
Recorded in Petty France Studios, London, on 25 February 1931
15. MEDTNER Skazka in C minor Op 8 No 1
16. MEDTNER Novelle in G major Op 17 No 1 (Daphnis and Chloe)
Recorded in Petty France Studios, London, on 26 February 1931
17-19. BEETHOVEN Sonata in F minor Op 57 (Appassionata)
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London,on 20–21 November & 9 December 1946
COMPACT DISC 2 (76’14) The 1936 & 1947 HMV recordings & Violin Sonata No 1
1. MEDTNER Novelle in G major Op 17 No 1
2. MEDTNER Skazka in B flat minor Op 20 No 1
3. MEDTNER Skazka in B minor Op 20 No 2 (Campanella)
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 21 April 1936
4. MEDTNER Skazka in A minor Op 51 No 2
5. MEDTNER Danza festiva No 3 of Forgotten Melodies I, Op 38
6. MEDTNER Skazka in A minor Op 34 No 3 (Wood Goblin)
7. MEDTNER Arabesque in G minor Op 7 No 3 (Tragedy Fragment)
8. MEDTNER Danza jubilosa No 4 of Forgotten Melodies III, Op 40
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 22 April 1936
9. MEDTNER Skazka in A major Op 51 No 3
10. MEDTNER Skazka in E minor Op 14 No 2 (March of the Paladin)
11. MEDTNER Skazka in E flat major Op 26 No 2
12. MEDTNER Skazka in F minor Op 26 No 3
13. MEDTNER Skazka in E minor Op 34 No 2
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 8 May 1936
14. MEDTNER Russian Round-Dance Op 58/1 with BENNO MOISEIWITSCH piano
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 24 October 1946
15. MEDTNER Improvisation Op 31 No 1
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 28 October 1946
16-18. MEDTNER Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor Op 21 with CECILIA HANSEN violin
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 25 April 1947
COMPACT DISC 3 (62’23) The 1947 HMV recordings
1. MEDTNER Canzona matinata No 4 of Forgotten Melodies II, Op 39
2-4. MEDTNER Sonata tragica in C minor No 5 of Forgotten Melodies II, Op 39
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 19 March 1947
5. MEDTNER Arabesque in A minor Op 7 No 2 (Tragedy fragment)
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 21 March 1947
6-8. MEDTNER Sonata-Ballada in F sharp major Op 27
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 24, 25 & 27 March 1947
9. MEDTNER Hymn in praise of toil Op 49 No 1 (Before work)
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 25 March 1947
10. MEDTNER Novelle in C minor Op 17 No 2
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 27 March 1947
11. MEDTNER Skazka in D minor Op 51 No 1
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 21 & 31 March 1947
12. MEDTNER Skazka in F minor Op 26 No 3
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 31 March 1947
13. MEDTNER Primavera No 3 of Forgotten Melodies II, Op 39
Recorded in Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, on 19 September 1947
APR’s landmark issue on three CDs of Nicolas Medtner’s complete solo recordings, which included fifteen 78-rpm sides of previously thought lost Columbia recordings from 1931 and an unpublished HMV recording of his Violin Sonata No 1, are here reissued as a set. Medtner was a magnificent pianist, and these are definitive performances of many of his most important compositions.
We can also hear him in Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata, the only music other than his own, he was to record.
For this reissue we have added a track – his recording of the Russian Round Dance for two pianos where he is joined by Benno Moiseiwitsch – and made some further refinements to the sound quality of the transfers.