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Ekaterina Levental & Frank Peters – Medtner: Wandrers Nachtlied, Complete Songs, Vol. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:54 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.
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Ekaterina Levental – Medtner: Sleeplessness, Complete Songs, Vol. 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:11 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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The first volume in this project, undertaken with missionary zeal by both singer and pianist, to rescue Medtner’s song output from obscurity, was met with enthusiasm in the Dutch press. ‘The melancholy, autumnal atmosphere evokes Tsarist Russia, of which the once Uzbek but long Dutch-resident Ekaterina Levental has perfectly captured the spirit. Her smooth singing is a joy to listen to.’ (Opus Klassiek) Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) was a Russian (with German roots) who lived outside the Soviet Union from 1921 and lived in London from 1936 until his death. He was a good friend of Rachmaninov and composed in a related style, with a hint of Scriabin here and there.
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Ekaterina Levental – Medtner: Angel, Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:12 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anybody who has entered into the cosmos of Medtner’s music, and especially of his songs, will be aware of its introvert, secretive, sometimes even hermetic character. His mixture of Russian and German philosophy and art, indebted to the bicultural upbringing in his family, was unique. Yet the outstanding quality of his songs does not lie in their stylistic singularity, but in their resistance to cliches of the genre and their musical and psychological insights.
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Ekaterina Levental – Medtner: Incantation, Complete Songs, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:18 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Medtner’s legacy for solo piano is now widely esteemed alongside Rachmaninov and other giants of the Russian ‘silver age’: melodists to their core, romantics at heart, yet rigorous craftsmen to their fingertips, who took their muse seriously and refined their inspiration to distil a peculiarly Russian spirit of melancholy in sound.
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