Medinš: 24 Dainas (Preludes) / Powell

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
October 30, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MEDINS, JANIS
    • PERFORMER
      Jonathan Powell
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2012
    • UPC
      5060113440976
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0097
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. Daina No. 1

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    2. Daina No. 2

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    3. Daina No. 3

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    4. Daina No. 4

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    5. Daina No. 5

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    6. Daina No. 6

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    7. Daina No. 7

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    8. Daina No. 8

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    9. Daina No. 9

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    10. Daina No. 10

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    11. Daina No. 11

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    12. Daina No. 12

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    13. Daina No. 13

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    14. Daina No. 14

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    15. Daina No. 15

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    16. Daina No. 16

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    17. Daina No. 17

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    18. Daina No. 18

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    19. Daina No. 19

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    20. Daina No. 20

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    21. Daina No. 21

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    22. Daina No. 22

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    23. Daina No. 23

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell

    24. Danis No. 24

      Composer: Jānis Mediņš

      Performer: Jonathan Powell


Mediņš (1890–1966) was one of the pioneers of Latvian music. His was a conductor, teacher, and wrote the first Latvian opera. The 24 Dainas were written over a period of 4 decades, and show influence of Rachmaninoff, Grieg, and Scriabin. This is the first complete recording on CD.

REVIEW:

The Latvian composer Janis Medins (1890–1966) studied piano and string instruments as a child and claimed he was exclusively selftaught as a composer. His 24 Dainas (short character pieces drawing from a rich poetic and musical tradition with subjects based on folklore) are similar in some respects to other cycles of Preludes by Rachmaninoff and others (and the term is rendered “Prelude” in English for the CD). Medins has a fine ear for tonal harmony heavily colored by chromatic voiceleading, and the works, like No 17, usually balance virtuosic brilliance and full-voiced, quasiorchestral textures. Powell, who is a composer as well as a pianist himself, furnishes a careful but highly expressive reading. The recording replicates a concert-like acoustic.

-- American Record Guide