Medtner: Piano Sonatas, Op. 25 Nos. 1 & 2, Six Fairy Tales, Op. 51
3/1/2023, 10 Tracks, 1:11:21
Featuring
Dina Parakhina
Nikolai Medtner
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Performer Biography
Dina Parakhina, the pianist on this album, is a Piano Professor at the Royal College of Music and previously taught at the Central Music School in Moscow.
Compositional Technique
Medtner's Fairy Tales, which are "little musical novellas," are considered by Dina Parakhina to be his best creations, expressing his most sincere thoughts.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Medtner's credo, elucidated in his 1935 book 'The Muse and the Fashion', emphasized his "Faith in music" and the importance of intuition in the Theme.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Medtner expressed himself almost exclusively through the piano, similar to Chopin, and knew how to invest miniatures with large-scale implication.
Critical Reception
Sorabji, in his 1932 book 'Around Music', considered Medtner "by far the most interesting and striking personality in modern Russian music" due to his independence.
Composer Biography
Nikolai Medtner, a younger contemporary of Scriabin, was a lifelong friend of Rachmaninov and admired as a magisterial pianist.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Medtner, a resolute tonalist, was considered by critic Leonid Sabaneyev to be "the first real, actual Beethoven in Russia," continuing the master's work.
