Medtner Songs
DCD34177 (2 discs)
DDD
24-bit stereo
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 75'35"/68'15" - TT 143'50"
Tracks: 31 + 23
Booklet pages: 60
© 2018 Delphian Records Ltd
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Medtner Songs published on 28 March 2018
Listen: Medtner: Arion (Six Poems after Pushkin, Op 36) (CD2 track 8, 0:01-0:55)
Ekaterina Siurina, soprano (CD1 tracks 20 and 28, CD2 tracks 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 15 and 18)
Justina Gringytė, mezzo-soprano (CD1 tracks 5, 10, 12, 13, 16, 21, 25 and 26, CD2 tracks 9, 14 and 22)
Oleksiy Palchykov, tenor (CD1 track 22, CD2 tracks 2-4, 7, 12, 13, 19 and 21)
Robin Tritschler, tenor (CD1 tracks 4, 6, 8, 14, 15, 17, CD2 tracks 17 and 20)
Rodion Pogossov, baritone (CD1 tracks 1, 2, 7, 9, 19, 23, 24, CD2 tracks 1 and 23)
Nikolay Didenko, bass (CD1 tracks 3, 11, 18, 27, 29-31, CD2 track 16)
Iain Burnside, piano
Nikolai Medtner:
CD1
from Three Romances, Op 3
1 By the gate of a holy cloister
2 I have outlived my desires
from Nine Songs after Goethe, Op 6
3 Wandrers Nachtlied [II]
4 Mailied
5 Elfenliedchen
6 Im Vorübergehn
7 Aus Claudine von Villa-Bella
8 Aus Erwin und Elmire I
Two Poems, Op 13
9 Winter Evening
10 Epitaph
from Twelve Songs after Goethe, Op 15
11 Wandrers Nachtlied I
12 Selbstbetrug
13 Vor Gericht
14 Meeresstille
15 Glückliche Fahrt
from Six Poems after Goethe, Op 18
16 Mignon
17 Das Veilchen
18 Jägers Abendlied
from Eight Poems, Op 24
19 Day and Night
20 The Willow (Why are you bending your head?)
21 Twilight
22 I am struck dumb
23 A whisper, a shy breath
from Seven Poems, Op 28
24 Unexpected Rain
25 Whenever I hear birdsong
26 The Butterfly
27 I sit, thoughtful and alone
from Seven Poems after Pushkin, Op 29
28 The Singer
29 Lines Written During a Sleepless Night
30 The Rose
31 The Incantation
CD2
from Six Poems, Op 32
1 The Echo
2 I loved you
3 Can I ever forget that sweet moment? (Waltz)
from Six Poems after Pushkin, Op 36
4 The Angel
5 The Flower
6 As soon as roses wilt
7 Spanish Romance
8 Arion
from Five Poems, Op 37
9 Sleeplessness
10 Tears
11 Waltz
from Four Poems, Op 45
12 Elegy
13 The Cart of Life
14 Our Time
from Seven Poems, Op 46
15 Geweihter Platz
16 Im Walde
17 Winternacht
from Seven Songs on Poems by Pushkin, Op 52
18 The Raven
19 Serenade
from Eight Songs, Op 61
20 Reiselied
21 What is my name to you?
22 If life deceives you
23 Midday
Recorded 22-23 March, 31 May, 1, 7 and 8 June 2016 and 17-19 April 2017 in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland
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