Twelve Goethe Songs, Op 15


Date: 1907-8
For: Voice (medium/high) and piano
Published by: Jurgenson 1909
Availability: Recital Publications (1909/1995)
Classical Vocal Reprints

Recordings

nos. 1, 3, 7, 11, 12
Del Grande bar/Mishakov LP Ecudo 4016

nos. 1, 4, 5, 7–9, 11
Pellegrineschi mez/Klimov 2005 CD Classical Records CR-070

nos. 1, 5, 7–9, 11, 12
Vitale mez/Baur 2001 CD Real Sound RS051-0038

nos. 2–10
Gritton sop/Tozer 2003 CD Chandos CHAN10093

nos. 3, 5, 7, 8
Schwarzkopf sop/Medtner 1950 78 Columbia LX1424/5 CD EMI CDC7-54839-2† reissued by ArkivMusic, EMI 2175752 22cds, EMI 5-65860-2‡ - nla

nos. 3, 5–8
Kravchuk sop/Konsistorum 2004 CD Henschel, with the biography

no. 4
Ivanilova sop/Milne 2007/Moscow* CD Vista Vera VVCD-00209

no. 5
Plishka bass/Hrynkiw 1996 CD Dinemec DCCD016

Schwarzkopf/Medtner recordings

† EMI Composers in Person (1993): includes songs by Slobodskaya/Medtner and Makushina/Medtner, the Russian Round-dance by Moiseiwitch/Medtner and some of the Fairy Tales

‡ The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook (1996): a 3cd compilation with her 14 Medtner songs and numerous transfers of works by other composers

The EMI Composers in Person CD was for many years only available secondhand, but it is now available from ArkivMusic, and from EMI in a Composers in Person boxed set of 22 CDs. mp3 transfers of all Medtner's recordings of the songs can be downloaded from this site. These transfers are of higher quality than the tracks on the Karadar site.

Asawa counterten recorded no. 4 with orchestral accompaniment in 1997 CD RCA 68903 - nla, BMG BVCC-31006 - nla


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