New releases

• Rachmaninov, Medtner, Scriabin, Lyapunov. Includes sonata in G minor op 22. Chisato Kusunoki. Quartz QTZ2089.

• Sviatoslav Richter Archives Vol 21 - Medtner (DVD region 1). Sviatoslav Richter, Oleg Kagan, Galina Pisarenko. Sonata-reminiscenza Op 38/1; violin sonata no.1 Op 21; songs Op 13/1, 32/5, 36/2, 36/5, 36/6. Live in Moscow, 27 Dec 1981. Doremi 8010. Contrary to the documentation in early shipments and the description on the Archiv website, Op 32/4, 36/1, 36/3, 36/4 and 52/4 from the same recital are not included.

• El Sonar De Las Campanas Rusas. Various composers. Includes sonata-reminiscenza Op 38/1. Irina Shishkina. Urtext JBCC197.

• MEDTNER Complete Piano Sonatas. Sergei Neller, Ekaterina Shishkina, Dmitry Krutogolovy, Alexandra Solomina, Anton Mikitsky, Anastasia Zhuravleva, Sergei Iorov, Grigory Rymko, Ilya Kaigorodov, Alexander Shaikin, Mikhail Turpanov, Irina Chistyakova, Varvara Tarasova, Yuri Favorin. Recorded live, 2009. Moscow Conservatory SMC CD 0119-122 4cds. Available on ebay.

• MEDTNER transfers from 78s and LPs. Medtner, Moiseiwitch, Hansen, Slobodskaya, Aeolian Quartet. Vol 7: more 1946-9 HMV recordings made by Medtner. Includes the first CD release of the Op 28/5 and 29/2 songs with Slobodskaya, and an incomplete version of Medtner's unissued recording of the piano quintet. St-Laurent Studio YSL 78-0027
• OISTRAKH Vol 1. Violin sonata no.3 "Epica". Oistrakh/Goldenweiser (1959). St-Laurent Studio YSL 78-0028

• MEDTNER transfers from 78s. Medtner, Schwarzkopf, Makushina. Vol 5: unpublished 1930 and 1931 Columbia recordings. Includes three songs with Makushina not previously released in any format. Vol 6: Schwarzkopf/Medtner recordings (1950), Op 27 sonata-ballade (1947), Beethoven Appassionata sonata. St-Laurent Studio YSL 78-0023/24
• MEDTNER transfers from 78s. Piano concerto no.1, Medtner/Weldon/Philharmonia 1947. Historic Recordings HRDC0004. Songs, Schwarzkopf/Medtner (1950) HRCD0007. Previously available from this site as downloads.

• Pushkin Romances. Dmitri Hvorostovsky bar, Ivari Ilja piano. Includes Op 3/2, 13/1 and 32/6. Delos DE3392

• MEDTNER various. Medtner, Slobodskaya, Makushina, Ritchie, Dobrowen/Philharmonia. Vols 1-3 are transfers of the Medtner Society Edition recordings of 1946-7 (note: the contents of the volumes do not align with the original volume nos.). Vol 4 is a transfer of the 1936 HMV set. St-Laurent Studio YSL 78-004/7 4 CDs, available separately. Some of these recordings have not previously been issued on CD.

• MEDTNER Romances. Jana Ivanilova, Vassily Savenko, Boris Berezovsky, Hamish Milne, Ekaterina Derzhavina. 34 songs. Vista Vera VVCD-00209. Available from Vista Vera, Ruslania, ebay, and some western distributors.
• MEDTNER, NAPRAVNIK. Evgeny Svetlanov, Tatiana Nikolaeva, Abram Shatskes, Alexander Labko, Borodin Quartet. Includes all commercial Medtner recordings by Svetlanov apart from the Piano Concerto no.3 with Nikolaeva and the Fairy Tale op 48 no 2. Evgeny Svetlanov Foundation SVET 42-47 6cds.

• MEDTNER Violin sonata no. 3 "Epica" / GRIEG violin sonata no.3. Svetlin Roussev, Frédéric D'Oria-Nicolas. Fondamenta FON-0902002
• RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 4, Floods of the Spring / MEDTNER Piano Concerto No. 2. Yevgeny Sudbin / North Carolina SO / Grant Llewellyn. BIS BISSACD1728

• PUSHKIN ROMANCES. Various composers. Joan Rodgers, Malcolm Martineau. Hyperion CDA67773. Includes Medtner Opp 29/1, 29/6, 32/5, 36/3.
• PROKOFIEV Cinderella Suite / MEDTNER Sonata in G minor / SCRIABIN Piano Concerto. Veronika Ilinskaya / CBSO / Michael Seal. Landor Records LAN288

• Medtner, Scriabin, Catoire, Roslavez. Includes Canzona matinata and Sonata-tragica Op 39 nos 4 and 5. Anna Zassimova. Bella Musica/Antes Edition BM31.9249

• Rachmaninov, Gubaidulina, Medtner, Prokofiev. Includes Sonata-reminiscenza Op 38 no 1. Anna Vinnitskaya. Naïve AM177. UK release date 5 October

• Russian Piano Music. Includes Op 20 Fairy Tales. Benjamin Moser. Oehms OC726

• Piano works by Medtner, Schubert, Chopin, Liapunov etc. Includes Sonata Romantica Op 53 no 1. Chisato Kusunoki. Tableaux Records CD0054, obtainable from tableauxrecords@gmail.com
• A Treasury Of Russian Romantic Piano. Includes Fairy Tale Op 8 no 2 and Meditazione Op 39 no 1. Nadejda Vlaeva. Music & Arts MACD1224

• MEDTNER, SCRIABIN - Poems and Fairy Tales. Includes Sonata-reminscenza Op 38 no 1 and Fairy Tale Op 20 No 1. Irina Feoktistova. MSR Classics MSR1326
• Fireworks - Virtuoso Violin Music. Includes Op 20 No 1 Heifetz arr. for vln/pf. Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe. BIS 1652

• MEDTNER Stimmungsbilder Op 1, Sonata Triad Op 11, Three pieces Op 31, Forgotten Melodies Op 38 & Op 39. Ekaterina Derzhavina. Phoenix Edition 156PHOENIX 2cds
• MEDTNER - Tales and Poems. Yana Ivanilova, Vassily Savenko, Boris Berezovsky. Mirare MIR059

• PIANO FESTIVAL RUHR, Vol. 17. Includes Olga Scheps playing Sonata-reminiscenza Op 38 no 1. Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2007 AVI8553115 3cds

• The 2007 Newport Music Festival - Connoisseur's Collection. Includes Adam Golka playing Medtner sonata Op.22. Acorn Media 10 DVDs

• MEDTNER Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol 2. Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Two Canzonas With Dances. Laurence Kayaleh, Paul Stewart. Naxos 8570299
  The Sound of Medtner - interview with the performers

• ECKARDSTEIN, SEVERIN VON Live in Recital. Works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Medtner, Janacek, Scriabin, Gottschalk. DVD VAI4441
  includes Sonata Tragica

• MEDTNER Piano Sonatas (Complete) and other Piano Works. Hamish Milne (with Boris Berezovsky, Geoffrey Tozer). Brilliant Classics BRL8851 7cds
  Reissues of Milne's CRD recordings with the exception of sonatas Op 38/1 and Op 56 (not recorded by Milne) from Tozer's Chandos set. The Op 58 works are with Berezovsky.

• METNER Piano Works. Severin von Eckardstein. MDG 604 1465-2
  includes the "Night Wind" sonata, various shorter pieces and three unpublished works
• BEREZOVSKY, BORIS Legato - The World of the Piano Vol. I. Works by Beethoven, Medtner, Llywelyn, Godowsky, Liadov. Euroarts DVD NTSC
  includes Fairy Tales Op 14/2, 20/2, 26/2, 26/3, 34/2, 35/4, 48/2, 51/1, 51/2

• BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto no. 4
  including cadenzas by Medtner and others. Jerome Lowenthal. Obtainable from Sophia Hiltner, email mavenace {a} aol.com replacing {a} by the usual symbol.
• MEDTNER Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol 1
  Violin Sonata No.3 Epica, Three Nocturnes Op 16, Fairy Tale Op 20 No 1. Laurence Kayaleh, Paul Stewart. Naxos 8570298

• MEDTNER Fairy Tales
  Sonata Op 30, Fairy Tales Op 34 Nos 1-3, Danza Festiva
  CONUS Sea Song. Serge Conus, Barefeetaloud. Obtainable from www.barefeetaloud.com

• MEDTNER The Complete Skazki. Hamish Milne. Hyperion CDA67491-2 (2 CDs)
• TCHAIKOVSKY/MEDTNER First Piano Concertos. Yevgeny Sudbin, Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling. BIS SACD1588

• OLD VIENNA Works by Godowsky, Weiner, Moszkowski, Wolf, Corelli, Mozart, Schubert, Paganini, Medtner, Scott. Inna Kogan violin, Tobias Bigger piano. Emec E-071
  includes Sonata no. 1 in B minor