Medtner: Complete Works for Violin & Piano

Featuring

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky
Ekaterina Derzhavina
Nikolai Medtner

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Composer Biography

The composer Nikolai Medtner and his wife Anna left Russia in 1921, settling in Berlin with the hope that their emigration would be temporary.

Composer Biography

Medtner's love for the German poet and philosopher Goethe lasted his entire life, and he frequently drew inspiration from Goethe's works for his compositions.

Compositional Technique

Medtner often invented new genres of instrumental music, such as his 'Skazki' (fairy tales) for piano or 'Dithyrambs,' in his pursuit of precise musical characterization.

Composer Biography

Sergei Rachmaninoff, a lifelong friend of Medtner, considered him the 'greatest composer of our time'.

Performer Biography

Ekaterina Derzhavina, the pianist, won first prize at the International J.S. Bach Piano Competition in Saarbrücken in 1992, competing against 90 pianists from 26 countries.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Nikolai Medtner, the composer, believed that song and dance are primal genres from which all musical works originate.

Performer Biography

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, the violinist on this album, won both the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition in 2010.