Medtner: Wandrers Nachtlied - Complete Songs, Vol. 4 / Levental, Peters

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
February 3, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Nikolai Medtner
    • PERFORMER
      Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 03, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421960661
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96066
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Wandrers Nachtlied II

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    2. No. 2. Mailied

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    3. No. 3. Elfenliedchen

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    4. No. 4. Im Voruberghen

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    5. No. 5. Aus Claudine von Villa-Bella, "Liebliches Kind!"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    6. No. 6. Aus Erwin und Elmire, "Inneres Wuhlen"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental

    7. No. 7. Aus Erwin und Elmire, "Sieh mich, Heil'ger, wie ich bin"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    8. No. 8. Erster Verlust

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    9. No. 9. Gefunden

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    10. No. 1. Lieb Liebchen (The Carpenter)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    11. No. 2. Lyrisches Intermezzo (Fichtenbaum)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    12. No. 3. Bergstimme (The Voice of the Mountain)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    13. No. 1. Wandrers Nachtlied I

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    14. No. 2. Aus Wilhelm Meister, "An die Turen will ich schleichen"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    15. No. 3. Selbstbetrug

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    16. No. 4. Aus Erwin und Elmire, "Sie liebt mich!"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    17. No. 5. Aus Lila, "So tanzet und springet"

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    18. No. 6. Vor Gericht

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    19. No. 7. Meeresstille

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    20. No. 8. Gluckliche Fahrt

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    21. No. 9. Nahe des Geliebten

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    22. No. 10. Der untreue Knabe

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    23. No. 11. Gleich und Gleich

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    24. No. 12. Geistesgruß

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    25. No. 1. Die Spröde

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    26. No. 2. Die Bekehrte

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    27. No. 3. Einsamkeit

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    28. No. 4. Mignon

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    29. No. 5. Das Veilchen

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters

    30. No. 6. Jägers Abendlied

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters


New recordings of Goethe and Heine settings by a master Russian song-writer, by performers thoroughly versed in the composer’s complex harmony and heritage. While Nikolai Medtner only emigrated from Moscow to Berlin in 1921, eventually settling in London, the Russian composer traced a deep connection to German culture through the ancestry of his mother. He was familiar with the German language and culture from his childhood, and made his first visit to Berlin in the winter of 1904-5, then returned for most of 1907 and the summer of 1909. It can be no coincidence that these original-language settings of two of Germany’s greatest poets date from this period in Medtner’s life. In his mid-20s at this point, Medtner had become internationally known as a pianist of formidable technical and interpretative gifts, but he continued to compose and to teach, taking up a post at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1909. While Medtner’s pianism often lends the quicker songs a scintillating brilliance, such as the Elfenliedchen which is third in the Opus 6 collection of Goethe’s songs, the overall mood of the collection is imbued with the feelings of love and longing which are key-signatures of Romanticism (German or Russian). Medtner was always drawn towards musical contemplation of life’s deeper themes, and he accordingly sets both poets at their most philosophical and visionary, in the Wandrers Nachtlied of Goethe and the Bergstimme of Heine.

On this album, recorded in 2022, Ekaterina Levental and Frank Peters couple the Opp 6, 15 and 18 settings of Goethe with the three Op 12 settings of Heine: a unique but natural pairing on record. The booklet includes both original texts and English translations.