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Nikolai Medtner

p, RU
Singer / Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner; 5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] – 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include fourteen piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, two works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, a few shorter works for violin and piano, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise. His 38 Skazki (generally known as "Fairy Tales" in English but more correctly translated as "Tales") for piano solo contain some of his most original music.[citation needed]

     
Genres
  • Classical
  • Folk
  • World
Popular Tracks   
Four Fairy Tales (Skazki), Op. 26: No. 3 In F Minor on Visions fugitives by Sergei Prokofiev & Anna Gourari
Arabesque. Op. 7, No. 1 - Duo-Art 0218 on Equinox. Piano Evocations from the Golden Age by Peter Phillips
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 50: II. Romanza. Andante con moto on Medtner: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 by Nikolai Medtner, Neeme Järvi, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Geoffrey Tozer
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 33: I. Allegro on Medtner: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 by Nikolai Medtner, Neeme Järvi, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Geoffrey Tozer
When Roses Fade (Transcription for Piano by Boris Shatskes), Op. 36, No. 3 on Nikolaï Medtner : Les trois dernières sonates pour piano by Nikolai Medtner & Benjamin Bertin
Forgotten Melodies I, Op. 38: VIII. Alla Reminiscenza on Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 2 by Nikolai Medtner & Geoffrey Tozer
Forgotten Melodies I, Op. 38: Canzona Serenata, Op. 38, No. 6 on Eclipse: Piano Works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff and Medtner by Juan Francisco Otón, Nikolai Medtner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Rachmaninoff & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2 Tales, Op. 20: No. 1, Allegro con espressione on Medtner & Rachmaninoff: Piano Works by Yevgeny Sudbin
Sonata-Idyll in G Major, Op. 56: II. Allegro moderato e cantabile on Nikolaï Medtner : Les trois dernières sonates pour piano by Nikolai Medtner & Benjamin Bertin
Sonata romantica in B-flat Minor, Op. 53, No. 1: III. Meditazione : Andante con moto on Nikolaï Medtner : Les trois dernières sonates pour piano by Nikolai Medtner & Benjamin Bertin

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Discography



Title Artist Year Type
EgoNikolai Medtner, Caspar Vos2018Album
Complete Works For Violin And PianoNikolai Medtner - Ekaterina Dershavina, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky2018Album
Piano Concerto No 2 / Piano Concerto No 3Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Marc-André Hamelin, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski2017Album
Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Concerto No. 2Jayson Gillham, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey2017Album
Quintet + LiveLudmila Berlinskaya, New Russian Quartet, Julia Igonina, Elena Kharitonova, Mikhail Rudoy, Alexey Steblev, Igor Fedorov, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexey Kurbatov, Dmitri Shostakovich2017Album
Complete Piano Sonatas · 2Nikolai Medtner - Paul Stewart2016Album
Yevgeny Sudbin Plays Medtner & RachmaninovYevgeny Sudbin, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff2015Album
Sonata A Romantica • Skazki Op 20 • Piano Sonata No 2 • Corelli VariationsNikolai Medtner / Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff – Steven Osborne2014Album
Piano SonatasNikolai Medtner - Alessandro Taverna2014Album
Plays At The Scriabin Museum Volume 10Vladimir Sofronitsky, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabine2013Album
Sonates Pour Violon Nos 1 & 3Nikolai Medtner, Chloë Hanslip, Igor Tchetuev2013Album
Sviatoslav Richter Archives Vol. 21Nikolai Medtner, Sviatoslav Richter, Oleg Kagan, Galina Pisarenko2012Album
Complete Piano Sonatas · 1Nikolai Medtner - Paul Stewart2012Album
Moussorgski: Tableaux D'une Exposition - Medtner: Sonate "Réminiscence" - Taneiev: Prélude Et Fugue Opus 29David Kadouch / Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Medtner, Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev2011Album
Music For Two PianosNikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Alexeev, Nikolai Demidenko2009Album
Contes & PoèmesNikolai Medtner, Yana Ivanilova, Boris Berezovsky, Vassily Savenko2008Album
Piano Sonatas (Complete) / Piano WorksNikolai Medtner / Hamish Milne2007Album
The Complete SkazkiNikolai Medtner, Hamish Milne2007Album
First Piano ConcertosPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ~ Nikolai Medtner - Yevgeny Sudbin, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling2007Album
Vadim RepinVadim Repin / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Béla Bartók • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Jean Sibelius • Sergei Prokofiev • Maurice Ravel • Nikolai Medtner • Ernest Chausson • Lalo Schifrin • Dmitri Shostakovich • Richard Strauss • Igor Stravinsky2006Album
Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano N° 2 • Quintette Pour PianoEvgeni Svetlanov - Nikolai Medtner2006Compil.
Sonata No. 3 & Five Preludes / Sonata Reminiscenza / Three Movements From PétrouchkaYevgeny Kissin - Alexander Scriabine / Nikolai Medtner / Igor Stravinsky2005Album
Mélodies OubliéesNikolai Medtner, Elena Filonova2005Album
The Complete Solo Piano Recordings Of Nicolas Medtner, Volume 3Nikolai Medtner2004Compil.
Moiseiwitsch 7Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Aram Khatchaturian, Benno Moiseiwitsch2003Compil.
Forgotten MelodiesNikolai Medtner / Irina Ossipova2003Album
The Three Piano ConcertosNikolai Medtner / Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra, Ilya Stupel2001Album
The Piano Works Of Nikolai Medtner Vol. 7Nikolai Medtner, Geoffrey Tozer2001Album
Sonata N. 3 In Do - Sonata In Sol Minore Op. 22Ludwig van Beethoven / Nikolai Medtner - Emil Gilels2000Album
Complete Piano Sonatas & Forgotten MelodiesNikolai Medtner, Geoffrey Tozer1999Compil.
Violin Sonata No. 2 / 3 Nocturnes / 2 Canzonas & DanzasNikolai Medtner - Mateja Marinković, Linn Hendry1999Album
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 And 3Nikolai Medtner, Konstantin Scherbakov, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ziva1999Album
Russian ImagesAnton Stepanovich Arensky · Mily Balakirev · Alexander Borodin · César Cui · Александр Сергеевич Даргомыжский · Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka · Alexander Gretchaninov · Борис Миколайович Лятошинський · Nikolai Medtner · Modest Mussorgsky · Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff · Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Vassily Savenko · Alexander Blok1999Album
The Composer-PianistsMarc-André Hamelin, Charles-Valentin Alkan • Ferruccio Busoni • Samuil Feinberg • Leopold Godowsky • Nikolai Medtner • Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff • Alexander Scriabine • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji1998Album
The Complete Piano Sonatas / Forgotten Melodies I, IINikolai Medtner, Marc-André Hamelin1998Album
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano QuintetNikolai Medtner, Konstantin Scherbakov, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin1997Album
Works By Kirchner, Prokofiev, Bartók, Medtner & HétuWilliam Race - Leon Kirchner · Béla Bartók · Jacques Hétu · Nikolai Medtner · Sergei Prokofiev1997Album
Russian Piano School, Vol.19Edvard Syomin, Frédéric Chopin • Isaac Albéniz • Ferruccio Busoni • Leopold Godowsky • Nikolai Medtner • Alexei Stanchinsky • Oleg Eiges1996Compil.
Gleb Akselrod = Глеб АксельродГлеб Аксельрод, Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Medtner1996Album
Violin Sonata / Violin Sonata No. 3 "Epica"Maurice Ravel / Nikolai Medtner - Vadim Repin, Boris Berezovsky1996Album
Svetlanov Plays MedtnerNikolai Medtner - Evgeni Svetlanov1995Album
Alexander GoldenweiserAlexander Goldenweiser - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Alexander Borodin, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner1995Album
Piano Concerto No 1 In C Minor / Piano Quintet In C MajorNikolai Medtner - Dmitri Alexeev1994Album
Debut RecordingKonstantin Lifschitz - Johann Sebastian Bach · Robert Schumann · Alexander Scriabine · Nikolai Medtner1994Album
Variations On A Theme Of Corelli / Three SonatasVladimir Viardo - Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff / Nikolai Medtner1994Album
The Piano Works Of Nikolai Medtner Vol. 2Nikolai Medtner, Geoffrey Tozer1993Album
Piano Music: Demidenko Plays MedtnerNikolai Medtner, Nikolai Demidenko1993Album
Piano Music / SongsNikolai Medtner / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Oda Slobodskaya1993Compil.
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Sonata TragicaNikolai Medtner, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Ilya Stupel, Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra1992Album
Piano Concerto No 2 In C Minor / Piano Concerto No 3 In E MinorNikolai Medtner - Nikolai Demidenko1992Album
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Sonata Op. 22Nikolai Medtner, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Ilya Stupel, Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra1992Album
The Romantic Piano Concerto Volume 5Nikolai Medtner, Hermann Goetz, Mily Balakirev, Christian Sinding, Sergei Lyapunov, Michael Ponti, Roland Keller1992Album
Piano Works Of Nicolas Medtner (Six Fairy Tales / Danza Grazioso / Canzona Serenata / Three Hymns In Praise Of Toil)Nikolai Medtner, Ross Pratt1992Album
RomancesNikolai Medtner - Лидия Чeрных, Lubov Orfenova1992Album
N. Medtner Concerto No.2 for Piano and OrchestraNikolai Medtner1991Album
Sonatas Op.22 - Op.25, No.1 "Sonata-Skazka" & No. 2Nikolai Medtner, Ádám Fellegi1991Album
Sonata In F Minor Op. 5 / Sonata-Triad Op. 11Nikolai Medtner - Ádám Fellegi1989Album
The Piano Music Of Nikolai MedtnerNikolai Medtner, Earl Wild1988Album
Vergesenne Weisen (I) = Забытые Мотивы (I)Nikolai Medtner - Инна Малинина1987Album
Mendelsohn . Chopin . MedtnerIrina Mejoueva, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Frédéric Chopin, Nikolai Medtner1987Album
RomancesNikolai Medtner1986Album
Sonatas = Сонаты / Elfenmärchen = Сказка ЭльфовNikolai Medtner - Evgeni Svetlanov1984Album
РомансыNikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Edvard Grieg - Надежда Казанцева1984Album
Sonata No.2 For Violin And PianoNikolai Medtner - Grigori Feigin, Igor Khudolei1983Album
Piano Concerto No. 1Mily Balakirev, Nikolai Medtner, Alexander Dmitriev1983Album
Sonata No.3 For Violin And Piano «Epica» = Соната № 3 Для Скрипки И Фортепиано «Эпическая»Nikolai Medtner1983Album
Sonata-Ballade, SongsNikolai Medtner - Oda Slobodskaya1983Compil.
Sonata Romantica In B Flat Minor, Op. 53/1 / Partita In A Minor, BWV 827John Corrigan - Nikolai Medtner / Johann Sebastian Bach1983Album
Сочинения Для Фортепиано = Piano WorksNikolai Medtner, Igor Nikonovich1981Album
Соната-Воспоминание / Фортепианный КвинтетNikolai Medtner1981Album
Piano CompositionsEvgeni Svetlanov, Nikolai Medtner1981Album
Stormy Sonata, Op. 53, No. 2 / Fairy Tales, Opp. 20 & 26Antony Rollé - Nikolai Medtner1980Album
РомансыSergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Nikolai Medtner, Alexander Gretchaninov, Георгий Свиридов - Andrei Fedoseyev1978Album
Утренняя Песня / Трагическая Соната / КонцертNikolai Medtner1978Album
Концерт № 2 Для Фортепиано С Оркестром / Две НовеллыNikolai Medtner - Philharmonia Orchestra1978Album
Концерт № 3 (Баллада) Для Фортепиано С Оркестром / Два Отрывка Из ТрагедииNikolai Medtner - Philharmonia Orchestra1978Album
Играет Константин АджемовConstantine Adzhemov - Ludwig van Beethoven / Franz Liszt / Claude Debussy / Alfredo Casella / Nikolai Medtner1978Album
Piano Quintet / Sonata In C, Op. 25 No. 1 / Acht Stimmungsbilder Nos. 1, 4, 7Nikolai Medtner1977Album
Plays MedtnerNikolai Medtner, Malcolm Binns1977Album
Piano Music (Fairy Tales • Short Pieces • Sonatas)Nikolai Medtner - Hamish Milne1977Album
РомансыSergey Ivanovich Taneyev / Nikolai Medtner - Ирина Архипова1976Album
Концерт Для Фортепиано С Оркестром N2 До МинорNikolai Medtner1976Album
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 3Michael Ponti, Nikolai Medtner, Orchestra Of Radio Luxembourg1975Album
Юношеский Концерт Для Фортепиано С Оркестром / Концерт N 1 Для Фортепиано С ОркестромMily Balakirev / Nikolai Medtner - Igor Zhukov1974Album
Песня И Рапсодия / Соната-воспоминание / Два Этюда / Четыре Этюда / Соната № 3Grigory Ginsburg - Nikolai Myaskovsky / Nikolai Medtner / Alexander Scriabine / Sergei Prokofiev1974Compil.
Виктор Данченко, СкрипкаVictor Danchenko - Georg Friedrich Händel, Max Reger, Fritz Kreisler, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Prokofiev, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov1971Album
Concerto No. 1, Op. 32 / Reminiscences Of Glinka's Opera "A Life For The Tsar" / Improvisation, Op. 31, No. 1 / Scherzo, Op. 16, No. 2Earl Wild, Boston Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf - Xaver Scharwenka / Mily Balakirev / Nikolai Medtner / Eugen D'Albert1969Album
Концерт № 1 для фортепиано с оркестромNikolai Medtner, George Weldon1965Album
Выдающиеся Пианисты ПрошлогоEugen D'Albert, Emil Von Sauer, Bernhard Stavenhagen, Teresa Carreño, Frederic Lamond, Moriz Rosenthal, Ferruccio Busoni, Egon Petri, Béla Bartók, Ernst von Dohnányi, Theodor Leschetizky, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Ignaz Friedman, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, Vladimir De Pachmann, Francis Planté, Raoul Koczalski, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Walter Gieseking, Анна Есипова, Константин Игумнов, Alexander Goldenweiser, Josef Lhevinne, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev1963Compil.
Композиторы Играют Свои ПроизведенияEdvard Grieg, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Enrique Granados, Max Reger, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabine, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner, Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski, Sergei Prokofiev1962Album
3-й Концерт (Баллада) Для Фортепиано С Оркестром Ми Минор, Соч. 60Nikolai Medtner1961Album
3-й Концерт (Баллада) Для Фортепиано С Оркестром, Соч. 60Nikolai Medtner - Tatiana Nikolayeva, Большой Симфонический Оркестр Всесоюзного Радио1961Album
Играет Н. МетнерNikolai Medtner1961Album
2-й Концерт Для Ф-но С Оркестром До Минор, Сочинение 50Nikolai Medtner - Абрам Шацкес1959Album
Соната (Элегия) / Соната / 2-я СонатаNikolai Medtner / Юрий Шапорин - Maria Yudina1959Album
Чакона / Из Цикла „Забытые Мотивы“ / ПрелюдииJohann Sebastian Bach - Ferruccio Busoni / Nikolai Medtner / Claude Debussy - Dmitry Paperno1959Album
Эпическая Соната = Epic SonataNikolai Medtner - David Oistrach, Alexander Goldenweiser1959Album
1-й Концерт Для Ф-но С Оркестром, Соч. 33, До МинорNikolai Medtner - Абрам Шацкес1957Album
Concerto No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra In C Minor, Op. 50Nikolai Medtner - Абрам Шацкес, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni SvetlanovAlbum
Piano Concerto No. 1Nikolai Medtner - Tatiana Nikolayeva, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni SvetlanovAlbum
Избранные СказкиNikolai Medtner - Абрам ШацкесAlbum
Live - Aufnahmen / Recordings from 1961 - 1969Emil Gilels, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Nikolai Medtner, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Robert SchumannCompil.
3-я Соната До Мажор, Соч. 2 / Соната Соль Минор, Сочинение 22Ludwig van Beethoven / Nikolai Medtner - Emil GilelsAlbum
Scherzo And March From The Opera 'The Love Of Three Oranges' / 2 Etudes / Recollections / Pavane, Jeux D'eauSergei Prokofiev / Frédéric Chopin / Nikolai Medtner / Maurice Ravel, Emil GilelsAlbum
Концерт Зары ДолухановойЗара Долуханова - Nikolai Medtner, Юрий ШапоринAlbum
Выдающиеся Пианисты ПрошлогоАнна Есипова / Константин Игумнов / Alexander Goldenweiser / Josef Lhevinne / Nikolai MedtnerAlbum
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