Nicolas Medtner: free downloads of historic recordings


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Historic recordings for download Except where indicated, tracks are 320Kbps mp3 files. For pdf scans of The Muse and the Fashion and other books and articles, see Publications. For sources of pdf scores see digital sheet music.
Medtner 1946-50 Piano Concerto no 1 with Weldon/Philharmonia songs with Schwarzkopf, Slobodskaya, Makushina and Ritchie Russian Round-Dance with Benno Moiseiwitsch Piano concerto no.1 can be obtained from St-Laurent Studio whose transfer is superior to the version offered here. St Laurent also offers the best available transfers of the famous Schwarzkopf–Medtner recordings, the only CD transfers of the Op 28 no 5 and Op 29 no 2 songs with Slobodskaya, and three 1931 recordings by Makushina–Medtner not previously released in any format. All extant recordings of the solo piano works, plus the violin sonata no 1 with Cecilia Hansen, are available on three CDs on the Appian label. Almost all these recordings are also available from St Laurent. Piano concertos nos 2 and 3 are available from Testament and St-Laurent.	Medtner in HMV studio, 1947
Other artists 1947-70 Most of these are at 256 or 320Kbps, the majority transferred from LPs. Those made before 1961 are mono. Concertos Tatiana Nikolaeva/Evgeny Svetlanov/Moscow RSO c.1961 One of the earliest Soviet stereo recordings. Unlike the later Nikolaeva/Svetlanov concerto no.1 it has never been transferred to CD. Piano concerto no 3, op 60 - part 1 Piano concerto no 3, op 60 - part 2
Chamber Oistrakh/Goldenweiser 1959 Violin Sonata no 3, Op 57 - 1st movt Violin Sonata no 3, Op 57 - 2nd movt Violin Sonata no 3, Op 57 - 3rd movt Violin Sonata no 3, Op 57 - 4th movt Piano solo Grigory Ginsburg 1957 The first commercial recording of the reminiscenza, and one of the best Op 38 no 1 - Sonata reminiscenza Yakov Flier 1959-60 A superior transfer from the LP is available from St-Laurent Op 38 no 1 - Sonata reminiscenza Leonid Brumberg 1970 A persuasive account of the sonata-ballade, but high surface noise Sonata-ballade op 27 Egon Petri 1958 (live) Made towards the end of his life, aged 77 Op 20 nos 1 & 2 Abram Shatskes 1958 High surface noise but well worth sampling. Shatskes was a pupil of Medtner. Op 8 no 1 Op 14 no 1 Op 34 no 3 Op 34 no 4 Op 42 no 1 Op 48 no 2	David Oistrakh Grigory Ginsburg Yakov Flier	Alexander Goldenweiser Egon Petri
Songs Dolukhanova/Kozel 1955 See notes to Op 36. Op 13 no 1 - Winter Evening Op 32 no 5 - The Waltz Op 36 no 3 - When Roses Fade Op 36 no 4 - Spanish Romance Op 37 no 1 - Sleeplessness Dolukhanova/Erokhin 1958 (live) Op 36 no 3 - When Roses Fade Op 37 no 3 - Impromptu Kazantseva/Bernar 1948-55 A lively performance of the sonata-vocalise, made a few years after Ritchie/Medtner. Geweihter Platz is sung in Russian. Op 41 no 1 - Sonata vocalise Rozhdestvenskaya/Bernar 1947-52 Op 36 no 2 - The Flower Shaposhnikov/Lebedev 1953-55 Op 3 no 2 - Gone are my heart's desires Op 32 no 1 - Echo Op 32 no 6 - To a Dreamer Nadezhda Yureneva/G Saltykova c.1966 Op 13 no 1 Winter evening Op 36 no 3 When roses fade	Zara Dolukhanova Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya	Nadezhda Kazantseva Sergei Shaposhnikov and Yevgeny Lebedev