Tales of the Forgotten Melodies [Import]

1. Behind The Curtain "Opening"

2. Que Sera

3. Ungodly Fruit

4. Between Fellows

5. Hypnosis Theme

6. Damn That Music Made My Day

7. Where My Heart's At

8. Birth Of A Struggle

9. Am I Free

10. Ringing Score

11. I Don't Know

12. Our Dance

13. Stay Tuned

14. Walk The Line

15. A Woman's Voice

16. Don't You Remember

17. How I Feel

18. Behind The Disguise "Closing"

Tales of the Forgotten Melodies,Wax Tailor,Under Cover Music,Dance,Dance Music,Pop

Average customer rating: Off-beat but awesome great Dark poetry in motion A Rare Gem A brilliant blend of old skool, jazz, funk: a true work of art

Tales of the Forgotten Melodies Wax Tailor Manufacturer: Decon Inc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hope & Sorrow In a Space Outta Sound The Last Resort Sound of Silver Pocket Symphony ASIN: B000F1HGY2 Release Date: 2006-05-30

Tracks:

1. Behind the Curtain (Opening)
2. Que Sera
3. Ungodly Fruit
4. Between Fellows
5. Hypnosis Theme
6. Damn That Music Made My Day
7. Where My Heart's At
8. Birth of a Struggle
9. Am I Free
10. Ringing Score
11. I Don't Know
12. Our Dance - Charlotte Savary, Wax Tailor
13. Stay Tuned
14. Walk the Line
15. Woman's Voice
16. Don't You Remember
17. How I Feel
18. Behind the Disguise [Closing]

Customer Reviews:

Off-beat but awesome.......2007-02-18

Get it. Refreshingly different. Put it on and watch your friends say "Hey, what ?!"

great.......2007-01-13

I absolutly love this cd. every song is great, I listen to it all the time. I highly recommend it.

Dark poetry in motion.......2006-11-03

This artist reads like an Edgar Allen Poe story--though not gruesome, Wax Tailor is full of dark sounds and mysterious twists. Each track is a different collage of sounds, which is also what makes the album so unique. The spoken word (instead of those which are sung) is integrated in many songs. The track "I Don't Know" is a prime example of a spoken plot being added with music. Wihle this makes tracks sometimes incoherent if one tries to follow the words alone, the mood of the song lingers in the listener's head for a good time afterwards .

In many ways, the album art is a great reflection of the group's sound: a black, desolate room with beams of light seeping through is equivalent to the dark, haunting sounds that linger through traditionally upbeat songs. I was very impressed with the way Wax Tailor incorporated with such enigma old jazz tunes with optimistic messages. If you should only take two songs from the album to download I would suggest "How I Feel", and "Que Sera Sera", both serving as a darker rendition of the popular, high-spitited jazz songs.

Not all tracks are so clever, and while they may stand out amongst other artists they fall short of their potential seen in other previously noted songs. "Where My Heart's At" is in a different style entirely. To me, it was a risk not worth taking since they're brilliant in other displayed techniques.

Wax Tailor is a great find for those who are familiar with popular trip-hop artists like Morcheeba or the up-and-coming Gnarls Barkley. Even better, this is one artist that will age very, very well due to how well it stands apart from so many groups; therefore, this album makes a sound purchase.

A Rare Gem.......2006-08-06

I have never reviewed a CD. When I heard this CD, I had to write something, especially since it has only 1 review. To begin... words cannot do this CD justice. I agree with the other reviewer... this is 100% fresh. The most original CD I have heard in years.

I am listening to it right now and it is mind blowing. Although, it may seem like a blend of hip-hop, funk, jazz, and samples, I think the proper classification is Trip-Hop. If you like K&D Sessions, Carboot Soul and DJ Kicks-Nightmares on Wax, then you will like this. However, it is not a reboot of those CDs. Very original! Turn up the volume, sit back, and be prepared for some fresh, mind bending, beats.

A brilliant blend of old skool, jazz, funk: a true work of art.......2006-06-09

This record just stands out. As a DJ for 20+ years, I'm a very tough grader. While this record is not 100% "new", it's 100% "fresh."

It's one of those few records that defy categorization. "Damn That Music Made My Day" falls clearly into Hip-Hop, and is one of the better break-mixes I've heard. The record jumps (seamlessly) from jazz to funk to soul to hip-hop. A violin as lead on one song, a turntable on another.

If feels as if the record is a journey from beginning to end. One moment you're in the South Bronx, one moment you are in Egypt. Then France. Then New Orleans.

Wax Tailor pours his heart into this record, and shares his love of music with you, and what a beautiful journey it is.

"Tales of Forgotten Melodies" plays as one cohesive piece of sonic art, and I am better for having listened to it.

So you will be, too.

Average customer rating: Wow! Medtner's piano music is a strong, major addition to the piano standard repertoire, for both listener and performer. Beautiful. but it IS unjust; the war is Iraq is unjust contra drollere

Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Forgotten Melodies / Hamelin Marc-Andre Hamelin Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Hamelin, Marc-André | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Alkan: Symphony for solo piano Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Music Alkan: Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', Sonatine, Le festin d'Esope Marc-André Hamelin Live at Wigmore Hall Catoire: Piano Music ASIN: B00000DG21 Release Date: 1998-10-27

Tracks:

1. Sonata In F Minor Op. 5: Allegro
2. Sonata In F Minor Op. 5: Intermezzo: Allegro
3. Sonata In F Minor Op. 5: Largo divoto
4. Sonata In F Minor Op. 5: Finale: Allegro risoluto
5. Zwei Marchen Op. 8: Andantino
6. Zwei Marchen Op. 8: Allegro
7. Sonaten-Triade Op. 11: No. 1 In A Flat Major
8. Sonaten-Triade Op. 11: No. 2 In D Minor (Sonata-Elegy)
9. Sonaten-Triade Op. 11: No. 3 In C Major

Tracks:

1. Sonata In G Minor Op. 22: Tenebroso, sempre affrettando - Allegro assai - Interludium (Andante lugubre) - Allegro assai
2. Sonata-Skazka In C Minor Op. 25 No. 1: Allegro abbandonamente
3. Sonata-Skazka In C Minor Op. 25 No. 1: Andantino con moto
4. Sonata-Skazka In C Minor Op. 25 No. 1: Allegro con spirito
5. Sonata In E Minor 'Night Wind' Op. 25 No. 2: Introduzione: Andante - Allegro
6. Sonata In E Minor 'Night Wind' Op. 25 No. 2: poco e poco Allegro molto sfrenatamente, presto

Tracks:

1. Sonata-Ballada In F Sharp Major Op. 27: Allegretto
2. Sonata-Ballada In F Sharp Major Op. 27: Introduzione: Mesto
3. Sonata-Ballada In F Sharp Major Op. 27: Finale: Allegro
4. Sonata In A Minor Op. 30: Allegro risoluto - Allegro molto
5. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 1 Sonata-Reminiscenza: Allegretto tranquillo
6. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 2 Danza graziosa: Con moto leggiero
7. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 3 Danza festiva: Presto
8. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 4 Canzona fluviala: Allegretto con moto
9. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 5 Danza rustica: Allegro commodo
10. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 6 Canzona serenata: Moderato
11. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 7 Danza silvestra
12. Vergessene Weisen (Forgotten Melodies) Op. 38: No. 8 Alla Reminiscenza: Quasi coda

Tracks:

1. No. 1 Meditazione: Introduzione, quasi Cadenza - Meno mosso - Meditamente
2. No. 2 Romanza: Meditamente
3. No. 3 Primavera: Vivace
4. No. 4 Canzona matinata: Allegretto cantando, ma sempre con moto
5. No. 5 Sonata tragica: Allegro non troppo
6. Sonata In B Flat Minor 'Sonata Romantica' Op. 53 No. 1: Romanza: Andantino con moto, ma sempre espressivo
7. Sonata In B Flat Minor 'Sonata Romantica' Op. 53 No. 1: Scherzo: Allegro
8. Sonata In B Flat Minor 'Sonata Romantica' Op. 53 No. 1: Meditazione: Andante con moto
9. Sonata In B Flat Minor 'Sonata Romantica' Op. 53 No. 1: Finale: Allegro non troppo
10. Sonata In B Flat Minor 'Sonata Minacciosa' Op. 53 No. 2: Allegro sostenuto
11. Sonate-Idylle In G Major Op. 56: Pastorale: Allegretto cantabile
12. Sonate-Idylle In G Major Op. 56: Allegro moderato e cantabile

Amazon.com

Nikolai Medtner's chums at the Moscow Conservatory included Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Like them, he was a brilliant pianist. Also like them, he composed an extensive body of distinguished piano music, most of which is relatively unknown. Its style resembles that of Rachmaninoff (who greatly admired it), although it lacks the latter's memorable melodies. Technically, it is just as difficult, requiring not only great fluency and endurance but also a wide range of colors. Marc-André Hamelin's prodigious technique makes him an ideal interpreter of Medtner's strong, clearly chiseled structures. His ability to play even the most complex and difficult passages at an even pace helps delineate and clarify them. Excellent recorded sound. --Paul Turok

Customer Reviews:

Wow!.......2007-07-14

Excellent (if you like Medtner's music). the piano is clear and wonderful.

Martin

Medtner's piano music is a strong, major addition to the piano standard repertoire, for both listener and performer. Beautiful........2007-05-02

When this 4CDs-album came out in 1998 I was one of the first in the states to purchase a copy, and even without knowing whether Medtner is my taste or not. I loved Hamelin's Scriabin-sonatas album so I didnt care about the high price of this Medtner-sonatas album. And I was right. With the first scanning of each disc I fell more and more in love with this gorgeous, rich, imaginative, romantic, melodic&rhythmic, intense, serious, profound, passionate...simply *beautiful* music. Medtner does not seem to strive for creating something extraordinary, innovative, modern, interesting per se but for pure musical intent. What you hear is pure (and absolute?) music by a genuine musician (Medtner) as natural and pianistic as one could imagine, with nothing else intended or presumed.
For comparative listeners, Geoffrey Tozer's boxed Medtner-sonatas set includes the complete Forgotten Melodies (I-III), not only I and II (Hamelin), but in the sonatas Hamelin plays with much more verve, drive, energy and speed. However, in the past years I tend to listen more of TozerPlayingMedtner...simply because he has been recording the complete Medtner solo music (prospected 9 volumes on Chandos) and I really enjoy the wealth of non-sonata music by Medtner which is less complex, of lighter content and much easier to understand. Many pianophiles whom I borrowed the Hamelin album thought that these sonatas were way too dense and heavy, yet in the end they fell in love with Medtner, too, when listening to his non-sonata pieces (Fairy Tales, etc.). They have become Medtner fans, yes!
As for my part, after having listened to Medtner sonatas for almost ten consecutive years, I somehow obtain the feeling that his other solo piano music is more enjoyable on a long-term basis. I cant listen to the sonatas nearly any more but I experience still lots of pleasure, fun and enjoyment listening to his other pieces. So thanks Hamelin for the convincing introduction to Medtner's world, and even more thanks to Tozer on Chandos (and Hamish Milne on CRD) for making this world my new home.

but it IS unjust;.......2006-10-03

that such beautiful music should be ignored! i never understood why rachmaninoff enjoyed more popularity than his more ingenious colleague, scriabin. i similarly don't understand why rach is deemed greater than medtner. perhaps it was sergei's larger-than-life presence as a pianist and conductor? i deem rachmaninoff one of the greatest pianist-conductors in history, but as a composer he ranks below both scriabin and medtner.
listen to medtner's music and be blown away by the intricacy and intimacy of his music. the density, the poignant lyricism. counterpoint unfolds and reveals music that is ten times more dense than rachmaninoff's (possibly excluding rach's 2nd and 3rd piano concerto).
you hear explosive genius, innovations, and emotions. a different trajectory from scriabin's music - not apocalpytic, but more rustic. more pastoral and fairy-like, if not as charged with pathos.
if you are a fan of piano music, or just keyboard music as a whole, if you're looking for something sexy, medtner's sonatas are the answer.
and hamelin's playing, i presume, does not need my vouching.

the war is Iraq is unjust.......2004-09-08

Medtner is a trult great composer and Hamelin is a truly great pianist, not just a technician.

contra drollere.......2004-06-23

Just a few words for those of you who are considering this set but have been given pause by the dissenting opinion in drollere's review, below.

I can understand that on first listen this music (like a great deal of classical music) may be difficult to parse -- to break into meaningful paragraphs and sentences, so to speak. And I know first-hand that when one can't yet hear the phrase structure in a piece of music, it tends to sounds like, yes, a long drum solo; it sounds like the music is attempting to express itself solely through superficial, local effects. drollere's review is actually a lovely, well-written description of the experience of listening to music without knowing how to parse it. One hears only "chords," "scales," "arpeggios," "melodies," and is aware that things seem to "change...every 20 seconds or so." In fact, listening to music this way - a bit like listening to the rise and fall of an actor's voice without being able to make out the words - often tends to give one an exaggerated impression of the surface effects, which I think must account for drollere's belief that this music is best characterized as "virtuosity for its own sake." Assessments like "the kinetic equivalent of serialism" and "a musical rubik's cube" really have nothing to do with Medtner - they just describe the general phenomenon of a piece of music being meaningless to a listener, in the truly musical sense of the word "meaning."

I was struck by these things, reading drollere's review, because they were so familiar to me: I am often frustrated by how long it takes me to come to terms with the form (and through it, substance) of a new musical work; sometimes it seems like I can listen to a piece 20 times and not yet know how to parse it. Frustrating indeed, because I, unlike drollere, know that at that point I'm still not qualified to form an opinion of the music. In a very real sense, I still haven't heard it. I might form an opinion about the fact that the music is still opaque to me (e.g. "I'm putting in an attentive, good faith effort to make sense of this music, so I declare that if I still don't know what's up after 20 listens, the composer isn't doing his/her job") but I'm simply not in a position to say anything about the composer's musical or aesthetic intentions or accomplishments. The composer didn't write the "drum solo" that I hear - it's just the raw data stream, not yet decoded by my brain, and as such isn't a work to be reviewed.

The irony of drollere's review is that the most outstanding aspect of this music, in exact opposition to what drollere says, is its "emotionally or imaginatively involving musical structure." Medtner's handling of sonata form is astounding - if you don't believe me or can't hear it, get a copy of the score and give yourself the assignment of breaking down the structure of one of the longer movements - the first piece I encountered was Op. 22, which is a good warm-up for the really sprawling ones, Op. 25/2 and Op. 53/2. I promise you that by the time you've gone through the purportedly tedious task of actually identifying the different themes and their recapitulations, noting thematic relationships, etc. etc., you'll realize how strong these pieces are, how exquisitely they fuse profound, heartfelt emotion with ingenious development - and then you'll be ready to listen again and hear it all. Or at least more of it. "What are the rewards of repeated listening?" indeed. Perhaps since July 28, 2003, drollere has found out the answer to that question, in which case I hope s/he will return and clean up around here. I just hate to think that anyone will be turned off to Medtner by a well-written but utterly rash review. Trust me: this is the real thing. The music is, if anything, better than the hype. Do not be dissuaded.

Average customer rating: Tozer is brilliant! Uknown Greatness!!!! He's not Marc-André Hamelin

The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 2 Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Piano Works Of Nikolai Medtner, Volume 1 Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 4 The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 8 The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 6 The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 7 ASIN: B000000ARI Release Date: 1994-07-26

Tracks:

1. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: I Danza Graziosa
2. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: II Danza Festiva
3. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: IV Canzona Fluviala
4. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: V Danza Rustica
5. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: VI Canzona Serenata
6. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: VII Danza Silvestra
7. Forgotten Melodies Op.38: VIII Alla Reminiscenza
8. Fairy Tales Op.51: No.2 In A Minor
9. Fairy Tales Op.51: No.3 In A Minor
10. Fairy Tales Op.51: No.4 In F Sharp Minor
11. Fairy Tales Op.51: No.5 In F Sharp Minor
12. Fairy Tales Op.51: No.6 In G Major
13. Sonata Triad Op.11: No.1 In A Flat Major
14. Sonata Triad Op.11: No.2 In D Minor
15. Sonata Triad Op.11: No.3 In C Major

Customer Reviews:

Tozer is brilliant!.......2005-01-19

I am a big fan of Andre-Hamelin and agree that Tozer is lesser-known than Hamelin as a previous reviewer said. But it does not damage the brilliancy of Tozer at all. He has a great sense of structure and his phrasing is luminous. His talent as a virtuosi makes it possible to challenge this extremly difficult works and the result is great. Bravo for Tozer!!

Uknown Greatness!!!!.......2002-05-12

He might not be a very well known composer but I can truly say that these pieces are something beautiful!! I also have the music book of Medtner and its a good workout on the keyboard, he is worth giving a listen, NO DOUBT!!

He's not Marc-André Hamelin.......2000-03-06

Geoffrey Tozer deserves our applause for bringing the solo music of Medtner to our attention in modern times. But the performances on this disc have been superseded by the incredible traversal, in a boxed set, of the sonatas plus other pieces, by Marc-André Hamelin, who is the most amazing pianist in this sort of repertoire before the public today.

Average customer rating:

The Complete Solo Piano Recordings of Nicolas Medtner, Vol 3 Manufacturer: Apr UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Medtner: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Vol. 2 Medtner: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Vol. 1 The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 6 Medtner: Piano Works Vol. 5 Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 4 ASIN: B00030ER60 Release Date: 2004-11-09

Tracks:

1. Canzona Matinata, Op.39/4
2. Allegro Risoluto
3. (Poco Quazi Recitativo)
4. Tempo
5. Arabesque In A Major, Op. 7/2 (Tragedy Fragment)
6. Allegretto
7. Introduzione Mesto
8. Finale Allegro
9. Hymn In Praise Of Toil, Op.49/1 (Before Work)
10. Novelle In C Major, Op.17/2
11. Marchen (Skazka/Fairy Tale) In D Major, Op.51/1
12. Marchen (Skazka/Fairy Tale) In F Major, Op.26/3
13. Primavera, Op.39/3

Average customer rating: Dramatic hip hopppppp The Chillest Trip Hop

Tales of the Forgotten Melodies Wax Tailor Manufacturer: Under Cover Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hope & Sorrow ASIN: B0007LCNNE Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

1. Behind the Curtain (Opening)
2. Que Sera
3. Ungodly Fruit
4. Between Fellows
5. Hypnosis Theme
6. Damn That Music Made My Day
7. Where My Heart's At
8. Birth of a Struggle
9. Am I Free
10. Ringing Score
11. I Don't Know
12. Our Dance - Charlotte Savary, Wax Tailor
13. Stay Tuned
14. Walk the Line
15. Woman's Voice
16. Don't You Remember
17. How I Feel
18. Behind the Disguise [Closing]

Customer Reviews:

Dramatic hip hopppppp.......2006-06-01

This is electronica, they sound a lot like Spore, mixing up old sounds like classic sounds of people saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen. Your attention please." Classic songs remixed, like Que Sera. Some are very short/interludes. Short songs are 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 18
(1.) This is an intro. Weird talking. "Where is the tailor? Just tell me where he is!" (2.) !!!!!! This is a remix of Que Sera, infused with old men's voices from maybe the '50's, it is a great song. This song is good for everyone, whether you like classic movies, classic rock, or electronica. (3.) !! This is entirely jazzy hip instrumental except for the first part.
(5.)!!! Hypnosis theme. Very mellow and dramatic.
(9.) Good, mellow and slow like their other stuff. FYI 6 minutes long.
12!!!!. Charlotte Savory does a great job on this. This is like the score to

The Chillest Trip Hop.......2006-04-30

I am hurt to see that no one has yet reviewed this album. This guy is a mad sampler, fusing voice clips and looped muzak to create some truly chilled out tunes. I was very dismayed to see he's released only one album, so I will have to do some research to see what happened to this dude. If you like relaxing, grooving hip hop, pick it up.

Average customer rating: Classic Romanticism Beautifully Rendered BORING buy this excellent introduction to medtner

Demidenko plays Medtner Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings of Nicolas Medtner, Vol 3 The Piano Works Of Nikolai Medtner, Volume 1 Busoni: Piano Concerto, Op. 39 Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Forgotten Melodies / Hamelin ASIN: B000002ZSD Release Date: 1993-12-29

Customer Reviews:

Classic Romanticism Beautifully Rendered.......2004-11-28

Nikolai Karlolovich Medtner (5 Jan. 1880-Moscow died 13 Nov. 1951-London) was one of the greatest pianists of his generation. Both his parents were of German descent whose families lived in Russia for several generations. His talents were recognized early and he entered the Moscow Conservatory at the age of 12. His decision to become a composer was largely his own, but he did continue to play the piano. He returned to the Moscow Conservatory where he taught piano at which time he became friends with Rachmaninoff. In 1921, Medtner emigrated to the west and after spending some years in Paris he finally settled in England where he spent the rest of his life. Apart from a single piano tour in Russia in 1927, he never saw his homeland again. He married his ex- sister-in-law in 1919. His musical output consists of 100 beautiful songs taken from Pushkin and Goethe, a few chamber works and many piano compositions. He went his own way and is one of the most under-rated composers of the 20th Century. This is a wonderful recording which captures a wide range of his piano work from his "Skazka" (fairy tale) to his Canzona and Sonatas. Eight compositions in all, each exquisitely played by one of my favorite contemporary pianists, Nikolai Demidenko. This excellent recording was made in September 1992. We are very fortunate to live in an age where we can easily listen to and enjoy such refined music. Don't bother getting bogged down in the gobbledygook in the liner describing the works. Just listen.

BORING.......2003-02-28

I'm out of sympathy with Medtner's music. It sounds like crepuscular meditations on the dullest aspects of human existence - at least in this recording. Demidenko has plenty of firepower (for example in the central section of the "Tragic" Sonata), but it's mere virtuosity. That may be Demidenko's fault, not Medtner's. Then again, Marc-Andre Hamelin's super-virtuosic account of Medtner's Sonatas has the same problem of creepy dullness.

Medtner sounds good only in his own performances, in my opinion. Amazon has the discs of his recordings of his own solo works. These are actually interesting and musical. Conclusion: Demidenko (and Hamelin) is hyped; Medtner has not yet found a superstar champion of his strange creations.

buy this excellent introduction to medtner.......2000-06-20

this cd is rated very fine to super excellent. highly recommended introduction to medtner's solo piano works, passionately and brilliantly performed by the great Demidenko.

Average customer rating: An Essential Medtner Recording

Medtner: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Vol. 1 Manufacturer: Apr UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Medtner: The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Vol. 2 The Complete Solo Piano Recordings of Nicolas Medtner, Vol 3 The Piano Works of Nikolai Medtner, Vol. 7 Medtner: Piano Works Vol. 5 Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 4 ASIN: B00000FDC3 Release Date: 1998-11-24

Customer Reviews:

An Essential Medtner Recording.......2005-03-31

Nicolai Medtner, a contemporary and friend of Rachmaninoff, is perhaps the greatest composer for piano since Beethoven. A virtuoso concert pianist of the highest caliber in his own right, Medtner composed relentlessly tonal piano music of great beauty and intense rhythmic complexity at a time when atonal music was coming into vogue in the Western art music world. Although stunningly beautiful, his compositions were thought to be too "old fashioned" in the West and so were brushed aside by "serious" music scholars, causing Medtner to live in poverty during his exile in the West following the Bolshevik Revolution. Nevertheless, Medtner's Russian musical contemporaries fervently admired both his compositions and his piano playing; Glazunov even called Medtner something like "The Guardian of Eternal Art."

This CD presents for the first time Medtner's earliest commercial audio recordings, made for Columbia Records in 1930/31 but never released. These are transfers from Medtner's own test pressings on shellac discs; the original masters were long since destroyed. Lovingly cleaned up and restored, these recordings are the real deal, an authentic revelation of Medtner's interpretive intent in his compositions (compositions which have no established performance tradition in the West). Not only do they represent an invaluable resource for pianists who wish to tackle Medtner's compositions, they are wonderfully enjoyable to listen to, tremendous recordings of some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.

Now, obviously, these are archival, not modern, recordings. The restoration presents them beautifully, but they are still cleaned up transfers from questionably preserved 78s so don't expect perfect clarity.

Aside from Medtner's own compositions, the disc also includes Medtner's performance of one Beethoven piano sonata, no.23 in f, op.57, which is masterful.

Listening to Medtner's piano playing is like opening a door into a vanished world, the Late-Romantic musical world from which sprang Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz. Listening to this recording, I feel like I am touching the 19th century directly. The wild variations in tempo and dynamics in Medtner's piano playing are a revelation, both enraging and delightful simultaneously. Modern Western piano performances seem both self indulgent and rhythmically square in comparison. And Medtner's own music... Stunning. Fantastic.

This is an awesome recording which I listen to again and again. Highly Recommended.

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Tales of the Forgotten Melodies Wax Tailor Manufacturer: Mole Listening Pearls/Kgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FA4WGI Release Date: 2006-05-29

Tracks:

1. Behind the Curtain (Opening)
2. Que Sera
3. Ungodly Fruit
4. Between Fellows
5. Hypnosis Theme
6. Damn That Music Made My Day
7. Where My Heart's At
8. Birth of a Struggle
9. Am I Free
10. Ringing Score
11. I Don't Know
12. Our Dance - Charlotte Savary, Wax Tailor
13. Stay Tuned
14. Walk the Line
15. Woman's Voice
16. Don't You Remember
17. How I Feel
18. Behind the Disguise [Closing]

Average customer rating: Medtner and more

Medtner: Piano Works Manufacturer: Russian Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001LML Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

1. Forgotten Melodies, Op.38: I. Sonata Reminiscenza
2. Forgotten Melodies, Op.38: II. Danza Graziosa
3. Forgotten Melodies, Op.38: IV. Canzona Fluviale
4. Stimmungsbilder, Op.1: II. Allegro Con Impeto
5. Stimmungsbilder, Op.1: III. Maestoso Freddo
6. Stimmungsbilder, Op.1: IV. Andantino Con Moto
7. 2 Skazki, Op.14: I. March Of The Paladin
8. 4 Skazki, Op.26: III. f
9. 2 Skazki, Op.20: I. b flat
10. 3 Skazki, Op.42: I. Russian Fairy Tale in f
11. Son-Skazka in c, Op.25, No.1
12. Son-Triad, Op.11: II. d
13. 3 Morceaus, Op.31: II. Marche Funebre
14. Bonus Track

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Medtner and more.......2000-05-11

I identify with his research of piano forms that preceed modernism, minimalism etc. The piano as an orchestra is not new. #13 is Sonata-Elegie regardless of the title.

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Medtner: Fairy Tales/Short Pieces Manufacturer: Crd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Elegies | Requiems, Elegies & Tombeau | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000044EY Release Date: 1994-04-05

Tracks:

1. Primavera (Spring tale)-Forgotten Melodies, Second Cycle, Op.39 No.3
2. Meditation-Forgotten Melodies, Second Cycle, Op.39 No.1
3. Fairy Tale in E Flat, Op.26 No.2
4. Fairy Tale in f (Ophelia's Song) Op.14 No.1
5. Fairy Tale in e (March Of The Paladin) Op.14 No.2
6. Fairy Tale in G, Op.9 No.3
7. Fairy Tale in d
8. Fairy Tale in c#, op.35 No.4
9. Three Hymns In Praise Of Toil, Op.49: No.1 Before Work/No.2 At The Anvil/No.3 After Work
10. Elegy, Op.59 No.2
11. Dithyramp, Op.10 No.2

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