| Date: | 1904-5 |
| For: | Voice (medium/high) and piano |
| Published by: | Jurgenson 1906 |
| Availability: | Recital Publications (1906/1995)
Classical Vocal Reprints |
complete
Gritton sop/Tozer 2003
Chandos CHAN10093
nos. 1–3, 5, 8, 9
Del Grande bar/Mishakov
Ecudo 4016
nos. 1, 3–5, 8
Vitale mez/Baur 2001
Real Sound RS051-0038
nos. 1–6, 8, 9
Larin ten/Bekova 1999
#2,3,4,9 Chandos (vol.1) CHAN9794, #5 (vol.2) CHAN9841, #1,6,8 (vol.3) CHAN9906
no. 2
Rosing ten/St Leger early 1920s
Vocalion B-3001 (acoustic; in Russian)
free from russian-records.com
nos. 2, 6, 7, 9
Ivanilova sop/Derzhavina 2005 & 2006/Moscow*,
Vista Vera VVCD-00209
no. 3
Ivanilova sop/Berezovsky 2007
Mirare MIR059
nos. 3, 4
Schwarzkopf sop/Medtner 1950
Columbia LX1423
EMI CDC7-54839-2† reissued by ArkivMusic, EMI 2175752 22cds, EMI 5-65860-2‡ - nla
no. 4
Ivanilova sop/Milne 2007/Moscow*
Vista Vera VVCD-00209
no. 5
Savenko bbar/Yampolsky 1995
Triton DICC-26049 - nla
Savenko bbar/Berezovsky 2007
Mirare MIR059
Savenko bbar/Berezovsky 2007/Moscow*
Vista Vera VVCD-00209
no. 8
Bedi sop/Sobol 1994
Cedille 90000 019
Gritton/Tozer perform the whole cycle in the original keys. Larin and Bedi transpose the lower pitched songs up a third. Del Grande transposes some songs down, a task that over-stretches the pianist.
† 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.
Makushina/Medtner made unpublished recordings of no. 3 for Columbia in 1931 and for HMV in 1947.
Asawa counterten recorded nos. 2 & 5 with orchestral accompaniment in 1997
RCA 68903 - nla, BMG BVCC-31006 - nla
Sudbin 2006
BIS SACD1588
The 1959 Collected Edition has numerous additional dynamic and expressive markings. There are also some significant detail alterations to the piano accompaniments in songs 1 and 4, and a couple of changes to the vocal part in songs 3 and 5.