If you know of other Medtner performances, please get in touch.
Piano concerto no. 3
I regret that I cannot list all overseas events. There are too many of them, and it would be unfair to list some concerts and not others. I will make an exception for festivals with a substantial Medtner content.
3 September 20:00: Russian duo sonatas by Bortkiewicz, Medtner (sonata no.1), Ippolitov-Ivanov and Cui by Inna Kogan violin and Tobias Bigger piano
5 September 16:30: Introductory lecture on Medtner by Nicolo Figowy
5 September 18:00: Medtner-only concert of the Op 38 cycle and songs by Alla Kravchuk sop and Natascha Konsistorum piano
throughout festival: exhibition of Medtner documents etc.
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.
Paul Stewart is recording the complete piano sonatas for Naxos. Recording for volume 1, comprising Op 25/1, 25/2, 38/1 and the early sonatina, is complete.
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.
Both volumes of the Dover edition of the sonatas are out of print. Most used copies are being offered at very high prices. Dover does not plan to reprint the volumes.
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