Medtner: Geweihter Platz (Sacred Place), Complete Songs, Vol

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 22, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Nikolai Medtner
    • PERFORMER
      Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 22, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421960722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96072
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Gruss (Greeting)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    2. No. 2. Alt Mütterlein (Little Old Mother)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    3. No. 3. Heimweh (Longing for Home)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    4. No. 1. Heimkehr (Returning Home)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    5. No. 2. Verzweiflung (Despair)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    6. I. Motto Geweihter Platz

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    7. II. Sonate-Vocalise

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    8. No. 1. Praeludium (Prelude)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    9. No. 2. Geweihter Platz (Hallowed Place)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    10. No. 3. Serenade, "Aussicht"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    11. No. 4. Im Walde (In the Forest)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    12. No. 5. Winternacht (Winter Night)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    13. No. 6. Die Quelle (The Spring)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    14. No. 7. Frisch gesungen (Sing out!)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    15. No. 1. Reiselied

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    16. No. 2. Nachtgruss

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    17. No. 3. Chto v imeni tebe moyom? (What Means to Thee My Humble Name?)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    18. No. 4. Yesli zhizn' tebya obmanet (If One Day You're Disillusioned)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    19. No. 5. Molitva (Prayer)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    20. No. 6. Polden' (Midday)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    21. No. 7. O, veshchaya dusha moya (Behold My Visionary Soul)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    22. No. 8. Kogda, chto zvali mi svoim (We Lost All that was Once Our Own)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    23. Wie kommt es?

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters


An unprecedented and critically praised series reaches it's fifth and final volume with richly evocative settings of German and Russian poets, from Pushkin to Nietzsche and beyond. Though born in Moscow, Medtner had partially German ancestry, and nearly half his songs are set to German poetry, which he knew in the original. In previous volumes of their complete survey of his songs, Ekaterina Levental and Frank Peters have concentrated on the Russians; now they conquer the peaks, as Medtner did, of Romantic German poetry, with texts by Goethe, Chamisso and Eichendorff. Rather less well known as a poet was Friedrich Nietzche, but he was a figure who fascinated Medtner, and the settings here speak of deep affinity. In the booklet, Ekaterina Levental reflects on her own sense of affinity with the composer. 'It was love at first hearing. It was as if someone whispered to me a truth for which there were no sounds before. He sounded out for me emotions and feelings, images, associations, a world of felt knowledge and experiences that I had been carrying inside me all along, but had never heard expressed in such a way. Someone from the past spoke to me in a language that I seemed to understand totally instinctively. Passing on this knowledge and wonder and sharing it with the audience became my dream.' This cycle on record has been a passion project for both artists, and Peters also passes on his own insights into Medtner's notoriously complex piano writing. Between them, they have gone further than anyone else in documenting a perennially undervalued Russian song composer, who deserves to be considered alongside Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky in this vein. This final volume closes out the cycle with the Eight Lieder Op.61, which move between Russian and German poets in a quintessentially Medtnerian synthesis. 'All in all, Levental and Peters make the strongest possible case for the repertoire... Levental continues to strike us with the beauty and purity of her voice and the rhetorical sensitivity of her phrasing, unfailingly tied to the affect of the text.' (Fanfare)