Forgotten Melodies, Second Cycle, Op 39

Date: 1918-20
For: Piano
Published by: Zimmermann 1923
Availability: Zimmermann (1923, sep); Moscow: Muzyka (1959/2000); Zimmermann (2005, ed. Flamm); Dover (nos. 4 & 5, 1959/1998), out of print

Recordings

complete
Malinina 1976/7 LP #1,2 Melodiya C10-26001/2 #3-5 C10-26003/4
Wild 1988 CD Chesky AD001, Ivory Classics 75003
Milne 1998 CD CRD (vol.6) CRD3509
Tozer 1998 CD Chandos (vol.6) CHAN9692, CHAN9723 4cds
Hamelin 1998 CD Hyperion CDA67221/4, CDA67578
Mejoueva 1999 CD Denon (vol.2) COCO-70811, COCQ-83385
Bekhterev 1999 CD Phoenix USA PHCD99507
Ossipova 2001 CD Arte Nova ANO931210
Filonova 2004 CD Ar Re-Se AR20059
Derzhavina 2008 CD Phoenix Edition 156

no. 1
Vlaeva 2007 CD Music & Arts MACD1224

nos. 1, 2
D Graham 1978 LP Musical Heritage Society MHS3976

nos. 1, 3
Milne 1977 LP CRD1038/9 CD Brilliant Classics 8851 7cds, CRD (vol.1) CRD3338

nos. 2, 3
Malinina c.1955 78 Melodiya 029558/9

no. 3
Grinberg 1948 CD Denon COCQ-83980, COCO-80471 - nla
Mejoueva 1998 CD Denon (vol.1) COCO-70756, COCQ-83112 - nla
Hamelin 1998/Husum* CD Danacord DACOCD519

nos. 3–5
Medtner 1947 78 #4,5 HMV DB6905/6 LP #5 Melodiya M10-41169 CD Appian (vol.3) APR5548, #4,5 St-Laurent YSL 78-004

Kawakami c.2000 CD Momonga MRCP-1001

no. 4  Canzona matinata
Medtner 1931 CD Appian (vol.1) APR5546

nos. 4, 5
Viardo 1990/1 CD Nonesuch 7559-79283-2
Demidenko 1992 CD Helios CDH55315, Hyperion CDA66636 - nla
Zilberstein 1992 CD DG 437 805-2GH - nla
Mejoueva 2002/Niigata* CD Wakabayashi WKLC-7003/4 2cds
Eckardstein 2007 CD MDG 604 1465-2
Zassimova 2009 CD Bella Musica/Antes Edition BM31.9249

no. 5  Sonata tragica
Ponti 1974 LP Vox/Candide CE31092
Clegg 1976 LP Alpha DB244
Ponti 1988/Newport* CD Newport Classic 60088-2 - nla
Fellegi 1990 CD Marco Polo 8223372
Madge 1991 CD BIS BISCD1258, Danacord DACOCD402 - nla
Hanselmann 1993 CD Prezioso (vol.1) CD800.014
Drost 2000 CD Cavalli CCD123
Corio 2001 CD Matteo Corio/CDbaby
Eckardstein 2007/Miami* DVD VAI 4441

Medtner gave instructions that no.4 Canzona matinata and no.5 Sonata tragica are to be performed as a pair.

There are many additional markings in the 1959 edition of nos. 3-5, which Medtner probably played regularly as he recorded them in 1947. Generally the markings add additional detail, but in a couple of places the dynamic scheme is changed, e.g. the original edition has a crescendo through the 3rd and 4th bars from the end of the exposition that is absent in the 1959 edition; there is another change in the coda. On the whole, the changes are of less consequence than those in some of the earlier works. Flamm's new Zimmermann edition indicates all textual variations.

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