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Medtner: Skazki
2L

Medtner: Skazki

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Details

Composer
MEDTNER, NIKOLAI
Artist
Gunnar Sama
Format
SACD
Label
2L
Released
Sep 20, 2019
Catalog #
2L156SACD
UPC
7041888524922

About

Nikolai Medtner's music fascinates and surprises, in the midst of what also seems to be well known. You may imagine that you have heard the melodies before, in childhood or in a dream. But, even if you haven't, it is as if you have been waiting for this music to return. In some mysterious way, it evokes the memory of the unheard. He named many of his piano pieces SKAZKA - tale. Some of them carry subtitles, but it is uncertain whether the composer had specific narratives in mind, as the name would suggest. The influential Soviet musicologists Boris Asafyev may have been right when he claimed that "these are not descriptive tales or tales that illustrate an event. These are tales of personal experiences - of conflicts in the inner life of man". In this recording, Gunnar Sama plays five of Medtner's albums, composed over the course of some 30 years.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Etude 03:17
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Etude
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  2. 2 No. 2. Caprice 03:04
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Caprice
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  3. 3 No. 3. Moment musical 02:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Moment musical
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  4. 4 No. 4. Prelude 02:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Prelude
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  5. 5 No. 1. Andante - Vivace 03:36
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. Andante - Vivace
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  6. 6 No. 2. Tempo giusto 04:48
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. Tempo giusto
    Duration
    04:48
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  7. 7 No. 3. Allegro, poco sostenuto 06:19
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Allegro, poco sostenuto
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  8. 8 No. 1 in C Major 03:46
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  9. 9 No. 2 in G Major 06:01
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2 in G Major
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  10. 10 No. 3 in A Minor 03:47
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3 in A Minor
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  11. 11 No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor 03:59
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  12. 12 No. 1. Russian Fairy Tale in F Minor 06:21
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Russian Fairy Tale in F Minor
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  13. 13 No. 2. Fairy Tale in Phrygian mode in C Minor 02:16
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. Fairy Tale in Phrygian mode in C Minor
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  14. 14 No. 3. Fairy Tale in G-Sharp Minor 05:12
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. Fairy Tale in G-Sharp Minor
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  15. 15 No. 1. Vor der Arbeit (Hymn before work) 03:36
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 1. Vor der Arbeit (Hymn before work)
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  16. 16 No. 2. Am Amboss (At the Anvil) 03:12
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 2. Am Amboss (At the Anvil)
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  17. 17 No. 3. Nach der Arbeit (Hymn after work) 03:41
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 3. Nach der Arbeit (Hymn after work)
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama
  18. 18 6 Stikhotvoreniy A. Pushkina (6 Poems by A. Pushkin), Op. 36: No. 3. Lish' rozï uvyadayut (When roses fade) (arr. B. Shatskes for piano) 02:02
    Track
    18
    Title
    6 Stikhotvoreniy A. Pushkina (6 Poems by A. Pushkin), Op. 36: No. 3. Lish' rozï uvyadayut (When roses fade) (arr. B. Shatskes for piano)
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Gunnar Sama