Four Fairy Tales, Op 34


Date: 1916-7
For: Piano
Published by: State Publishing House 1919
Availability: Dover (1959/2001); Boosey & Hawkes (no.2 only)

Recordings

complete
Nikonovich 1981 CD Russian Disc RDCD10014 - nla
Milne 1994 CD CRD (vol.5) Brilliant Classics 8851 7cds, CRD3498
Milne 2006 CD Hyperion CDA67491/2

nos. 1, 2
Bekhterev 2004 CD Camerata CMCD28074

nos. 1–3
S Conus 1988* CD download Jeanne d'Arc records

no. 2
Moiseiwitsch 1928 78 HMV E530, Victor 1449 CD Naxos 8110675, Testament SBT1196, Koch 37035-2 - nla, Dante HPC024 - nla

Cherkassky 1946 78 Vox 16026 (set 165) CD Pearl GEMMCD0138, Ivory Classics 72003 - nla
Achúcharro 1960s? LP RCA LM16308 (Spain)
Krehm c.1974 LP CBC (Radio Canada International) SM-247
Clegg 1976 LP Alpha DB244
Garland 1990 CD Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD2037
Tozer 1991 CD Chandos (vol.1) CHAN9050
Milne 1994/Husum* CD Danacord DACOCD429
Carol Rich 1996 CD private label - nla
Mejoueva 1998 CD Denon (vol.1) COCO-70756, COCQ-83112 - nla
Hanselmann 1998 CD Prezioso (vol.2) CD800.037
Berezovsky 2006/Essen* DVD Euroarts EUA2055758
Berezovsky 2007 CD Mirare MIR059
Nielsen 2009 CD Northern Flowers NF/PMA 9982

nos. 2, 3
Medtner 1936 78 DB3004, Victor 14509 LP #2 Melodiya D 7845/6 CD Appian (vol.2) APR5547, St-Laurent YSL 78-007, Dante HPC130 - nla
Berezovsky 1995 CD Teldec 4509-96516-2

no. 3
Lifschitz 1990 CD Denon COCO-79807, COCQ-83251 - nla

nos. 3, 4
Shatskes 1958 LP Melodiya D 10063/4†

† according to Melodiya: a Soviet Russian L.P. discography and Flamm. The IPQ and BIRS discographies list only Op 34 no 4.

Medtner recorded a Duo-Art piano roll of Op 34 no 3 in 1925 (published 1931)


Transcription of Op 34 no 2 for violin and piano
by M Vladimirsky

Malinin/Stern c.1965 LP Melodiya D 016139/40


Numerous dynamic and expressive markings were added in the 1959 Collected Edition, especially in no.1. A few of these are not trivial. In bar 17 of no.1 the tied half note B is a tenuto quarter note in the 1919 edition, and there is no staccato dot in the LH. I did not find any other significant changes in the notes, but I have not looked exhaustively. Most of the pedal marks originate from the 1919 edition.

None of the subtitles or quotations are present in the 1919 edition.

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