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Medtner - Complete Works for Violin and Piano Vol.1 | Naxos 8570298

Medtner - Complete Works for Violin and Piano Vol.1

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570298

Barcode: 0747313029877

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th July 2007

Contents

Artists

Laurence Kayaleh (violin)
Paul Stewart (piano)

Works

Medtner, Nikolai

Fairy Tales (Skazki) (2), op.20
» no.1 in B flat minor
Nocturnes (3), op.16
Violin Sonata no.3 in E minor, op.57 'Epica'

Artists

Laurence Kayaleh (violin)
Paul Stewart (piano)

About

If the piano works of Nikolay Medtner are finally achieving the recognition they merit, the same cannot yet be said for his compositions for violin and piano.
 
This first of two discs of Medtner’s five violin and piano works opens with his last and greatest work for these instruments, Sonata No. 3, ‘Epica’, completed in 1938. Unashamedly Romantic and distinctly Russian with its frequent allusions to folk-dances and Orthodox liturgical chants, the Sonata reflects both Medtner’s recent conversion to the Orthodox faith and his bitter acceptance of permanent exile from his homeland. This bleak and mournful work includes an Andante of heartbreaking beauty. 
 
The sombre yet impassioned Three Nocturnes were inspired by Goethe, one of the composer’s favourite poets.

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