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

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Composer
Nikolai Medtner
Artist
Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Nov 22, 2024
Catalog #
BRI96072
UPC
5028421960722

About

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)

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Gruss (Greeting) 01:51
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Gruss (Greeting)
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  2. 2 No. 2. Alt Mütterlein (Little Old Mother) 02:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Alt Mütterlein (Little Old Mother)
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  3. 3 No. 3. Heimweh (Longing for Home) 02:58
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Heimweh (Longing for Home)
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  4. 4 No. 1. Heimkehr (Returning Home) 03:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Heimkehr (Returning Home)
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  5. 5 No. 2. Verzweiflung (Despair) 04:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Verzweiflung (Despair)
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  6. 6 I. Motto Geweihter Platz 03:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Motto Geweihter Platz
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  7. 7 II. Sonate-Vocalise 11:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Sonate-Vocalise
    Duration
    11:27
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  8. 8 No. 1. Praeludium (Prelude) 01:53
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. Praeludium (Prelude)
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  9. 9 No. 2. Geweihter Platz (Hallowed Place) 03:28
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. Geweihter Platz (Hallowed Place)
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  10. 10 No. 3. Serenade, "Aussicht" 01:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3. Serenade, "Aussicht"
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  11. 11 No. 4. Im Walde (In the Forest) 01:40
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 4. Im Walde (In the Forest)
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  12. 12 No. 5. Winternacht (Winter Night) 04:08
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 5. Winternacht (Winter Night)
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  13. 13 No. 6. Die Quelle (The Spring) 02:06
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 6. Die Quelle (The Spring)
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  14. 14 No. 7. Frisch gesungen (Sing out!) 02:28
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 7. Frisch gesungen (Sing out!)
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  15. 15 No. 1. Reiselied 03:02
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 1. Reiselied
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  16. 16 No. 2. Nachtgruss 03:18
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 2. Nachtgruss
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  17. 17 No. 3. Chto v imeni tebe moyom? (What Means to Thee My Humble Name?) 03:35
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 3. Chto v imeni tebe moyom? (What Means to Thee My Humble Name?)
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  18. 18 No. 4. Yesli zhizn' tebya obmanet (If One Day You're Disillusioned) 02:05
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 4. Yesli zhizn' tebya obmanet (If One Day You're Disillusioned)
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  19. 19 No. 5. Molitva (Prayer) 02:19
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 5. Molitva (Prayer)
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  20. 20 No. 6. Polden' (Midday) 02:16
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 6. Polden' (Midday)
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  21. 21 No. 7. O, veshchaya dusha moya (Behold My Visionary Soul) 02:10
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 7. O, veshchaya dusha moya (Behold My Visionary Soul)
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  22. 22 No. 8. Kogda, chto zvali mi svoim (We Lost All that was Once Our Own) 03:00
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 8. Kogda, chto zvali mi svoim (We Lost All that was Once Our Own)
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
  23. 23 Wie kommt es? 02:29
    Track
    23
    Title
    Wie kommt es?
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters