If you know of other Medtner performances, please get in touch.
I regret that I cannot list most overseas concerts: there are too many of them. I will make an exception for festivals and noteworthy events.
Includes DVDs. Reissues may be omitted. Labels unavailable in the UK may take a while to come to my notice. Please let me know of any I've missed.
Dover plans to reissue the sonata volumes in April 2012.
Geoffrey Tozer died on 21 August 2009, aged 54. An account of his life can be read in The Australian. Obituaries appeared in The Australian, The Age, and in Britain The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian.
International Music Score Library Project
The site was relaunched on 1 July 2008. All the blocks on Medtner works have now disappeared with the exception of the Op 58 two-piano works, which are apparently still in copyright in the USA. For Op 57 a search failed to find a copyright renewal so the work is believed to be public domain in the USA.
Scans of Op 58, and alternative editions of other works, are available elsewhere.
A festival of Russian music focused on Medtner was held at Saarbrücken, Germany on 13-19 Nov 2011. There were some alterations to the advertised programme. The concerts on Nov 13 and 17 are to be broadcast on SR2, possibly in January. Photo of performers on Nov 13: Boris Berezovsky, Thomas Duis, Alexander Rudin, Ekaterina Derzhavina, Hamish Milne, Yana Ivanilova (Laurent Albrecht Breininger absent).
Alex Karpeyev and the Idomeneo Quartet performed the Piano Quintet on 3 June 2011 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. The concert attracted a very favourable review in Musical Opinion.
A Medtner festival was held in Moscow on 3-5 Jan 2011, featuring three concerts with Yana Ivanilova, Feodor Tarasov, Boris and Evelyne Berezovsky, Hamish Milne, Ekaterina Derzhavin and Severin von Eckardstein.
Yakov Kasman performed Piano Concerto no. 2 with David Wroe and the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Huntsville, Alabama, USA on 13 November 2010, the anniversary of Medtner's death. He performed the concerto again on 16 March 2011 with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine under Nataliya Ponomarchuk in Kiev. Review (in Russian)
Piano Concerto no.3 was performed by Simon Callaghan with Benjamin Ellin and the Slaithwaite Philharmonic in Huddersfield on 16 October 2010, and by Veronika Ilinskaya with Maxime Tortelier and the Royal Academy Orchestra in London on 11 Jan 2011. Both performances, probably the first in the UK since 1946, were enthusiastically received.
Medtner featured in a festival of Russian chamber music in Hamburg, Germany in September 2010 promoted by Musikförderung e.V..
Laurence Kayaleh and Paul Stewart performed the Violin Sonata no.2 on 29 July 2008 at the Festival of the Sound in Canada. The audience rose to its feet at the conclusion and it was wonderful to witness such an enthusiastic reception for a work that cannot have been known to many.
Boris Berezovsky performed Piano Concerto no. 2 with Sir Andrew Davies and the Philharmonia in London's Royal Festival Hall on 29 May 2008. This might have been the first UK performance of the second piano concerto since the 1940s — does anyone know? Regrettably, the BBC did not record it.
Review
Vassily Savenko and Boris Berezovsky performed songs and fairy tales by Medtner in Tokyo and Osaka in March 2008. The Medtner songs may have been receiving their Japanese première. Some photographs from these enthusiastically received concerts can be seen here. Three of the songs can be viewed on YouTube.
Second International Festival of Medtner's Music
Russia, May 2007