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Medtner: Songs / Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
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Medtner: Songs / Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev

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Composer
MEDTNER, NIKOLAI
Artist
Fomina, Karpeyev
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Feb 05, 2021
Catalog #
CHAN 20171
UPC
095115217122

About

Like his friend and contemporary Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner enjoyed a privileged and affluent upbringing, and was also exiled from Russia following the revolution in 1917. Unlike Rachmaninoff, Medtner could point to an ancestry that was part German, and his father’s passion for Germanic culture ensured that Goethe and Beethoven exerted as much influence on the young Medtner as Russian composers and writers, in particular Beethoven’s piano sonatas and string quartets. Medtner moved first to Germany, then France, before settling in London in 1935. The earlier songs in this programme, Opp. 36 and 37, were written against the backdrop of the revolution, shortly before he fled Russia. Opp. 45 and 46 (written to Russian and German texts, respectively) were composed in France. Praised for her ‘formidably striking’ and ‘stunning silvery’ sound, the rising star soprano Sofia Fomina has performed in Toulouse and Baden-Baden, at Bayerische Staatsoper, Seattle Opera, Hungarian State Opera, Paris Opera, and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Her Pamina for Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2019 received rave reviews. Alexander Karpeyev has performed throughout Europe and toured in the USA, Canada, and Russia as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. A prize-winner of several international competitions, he also completed a doctorate on performance practise in the music of Medtner, based on the Edna Iles Medtner Collection at the British Library.

REVIEW:

The Russian soprano’s lovely voice soars above the staff with ease – no wonder as she is a busy operatic coloratura soprano. But unlike many an opera singer, she is perfectly at home in the intimate world of art song, where her attention to the nuances of expressing the text are greatly in evidence. She is just as comfortable in the lyrical songs in 6 Stikhotvoreniy A. Pushkina (6 Poems by A. Pushkin), Op. 36 as in the rapturously dramatic Arion and in the intensity of Telega zhizni (The Wagon of Life.)

Sofia Fomina is perfectly partnered by the protean pianist Alexander Karpeyev, a Medtner specialist who would be the ideal artist to create an album of piano music by the prolific Medtner.

– Rafael's Music Notes (Rafael de Acha)

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Angel (The Angel) 01:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Angel (The Angel)
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  2. 2 No. 2. Tsvetok (The Flower) 02:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Tsvetok (The Flower)
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  3. 3 No. 3. Lish' rozï uvyadayut (When roses fade) 01:55
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Lish' rozï uvyadayut (When roses fade)
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  4. 4 No. 4. Ispanskiy romans (Spanish Romance) 02:07
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Ispanskiy romans (Spanish Romance)
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  5. 5 No. 5. Noch' (Night) 01:56
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Noch' (Night)
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  6. 6 No. 6. Arion (Arion) 03:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Arion (Arion)
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  7. 7 No. 1. Bessonnitsa (Sleeplessness) 04:42
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Bessonnitsa (Sleeplessness)
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  8. 8 No. 2. Slyozï (Tears) 01:48
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Slyozï (Tears)
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  9. 9 No. 3. Impromptu 02:40
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Impromptu
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  10. 10 No. 4. Val's (The Waltz) 02:37
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Val's (The Waltz)
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  11. 11 No. 5. O chyom tï voyesh', vetr nochnoy (Night Wind) 01:37
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 5. O chyom tï voyesh', vetr nochnoy (Night Wind)
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  12. 12 No. 1. Elegiya (Elegy) 05:21
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Elegiya (Elegy)
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  13. 13 No. 2. Telega zhizni (The Wagon of Life) 02:33
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. Telega zhizni (The Wagon of Life)
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  14. 14 No. 3. Pesn' nochi (Night Song) 03:00
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. Pesn' nochi (Night Song)
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  15. 15 No. 4. Nash vek (Our Time) 03:00
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 4. Nash vek (Our Time)
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  16. 16 No. 1. Praeludium (Prelude) 01:59
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 1. Praeludium (Prelude)
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  17. 17 No. 2. Geweihter Platz (Hallowed Place) 03:02
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 2. Geweihter Platz (Hallowed Place)
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  18. 18 No. 3. Serenade, "Aussicht" 01:19
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 3. Serenade, "Aussicht"
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  19. 19 No. 4. Im Walde (In the Forest) 01:27
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 4. Im Walde (In the Forest)
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  20. 20 No. 5. Winternacht (Winter Night) 03:37
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 5. Winternacht (Winter Night)
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  21. 21 No. 6. Die Quelle (The Spring) 01:46
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 6. Die Quelle (The Spring)
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev
  22. 22 No. 7. Frisch gesungen (Sing out!) 02:33
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 7. Frisch gesungen (Sing out!)
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Nikolai Medtner
    Performer
    Sofia Fomina, Alexander Karpeyev