Medtner, 1930s Nikolai Medtner

Historic recordings for download

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Medtner 1946-50
The Op 28 no 5 and Op 29 no 2 songs with Slobodskaya, originally unpublished, are not commercially available. All extant recordings of the solo piano works, plus the violin sonata no 1 with Cecilia Hansen, are available on three CDs on the Appian label. Piano concertos nos 2 and 3 are available from Testament.
Medtner in HMV studio, 1947

Medtner in HMV studio, 1947
Dolukhanova/Kozel c.1955(?)
Given as 1958 with Svetlanova on Vista Vera and 1966-68 with Svetlanova on the Russian Disc CD. See notes to Op 36.
Dolukhanova/Erokhin 1958 (live)
Ginsburg 1957
The first commercial recording of the reminiscenza, and one of the best
Zara Dolukhanova

Zara Dolukhanova


Grigory Ginsburg

Grigory Ginsburg
Kazantseva/Bernar 1948-55
A lively performance of the sonata-vocalise, made a few years after Ritchie/Medtner. Geweihter Platz is sung in Russian.
Rozhdestvenskaya/Bernar 1947-52
Shaposhnikov/Lebedev 1953-55
Sofronitsky 1947
Oistrakh/Goldenweiser 1959
Nadezhda Kazantseva

Nadezhda Kazantseva


Vladimir Sofronitsky

Vladimir Sofronitsky


Alexander Goldenweiser

Alexander Goldenweiser
Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya

Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya


Sergei Shaposhnikov and Yevgeny Lebedev

Sergei Shaposhnikov and Yevgeny Lebedev


David Oistrakh

David Oistrakh

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