complete
Medtner 1930 
Appian (vol.1) APR5546, St-Laurent (vol.5) YSL 78-023
Medtner 1936 
HMV DB3006, Victor 14512 
#1 Melodiya D 7845/6 Aprelevka Riga Appian (vol.2) APR5547, EMI CDC7-54839-2 reissued by ArkivMusic, EMI 2175752 22cds, St-Laurent (vol.4) YSL 78-007, Melodiya MELCD 10-02200, Dante HPC130 - nla
Grinberg 1952 Vista Vera VVCD-00119, Denon COCQ-83980†, COCO-80471† - nla, Scribendum SC814 34CDs, Russian Compact Disc RCD13009
Egon Petri 1958/Basel* Dell'Arte DA9009 Music & Arts 772 - nla
Pratt 1966 York 27001
Pleshakov 1970 Orion ORS7019 
Orion LAN0039
Brumberg c.1972 Melodiya CM 03463/4
Syomin 1976‡ BMG/Melodiya 74321 33217-2 - nla
D Graham 1978 Musical Heritage Society MHS3976
Rollé 1979 Finnadar SR9026
Polionov 1991 Klavins KM14
Hanselmann 1993 Prezioso (vol.1) CD800.014
Sama 1999 Lindberg PIANO002
Tozer 2000 Chandos (vol.7) CHAN9899
Park 2000 Triton DICC-26062
Burstein 2000/Miami* VAI MIP001
Osborne 2002/Husum* Danacord DACOCD609
Bekhterev 2004 Camerata CMCD28074
A Alexeyev 2004 Marquis MQCL81359/MAR359
Arimori c.2005 Fontec FOCD9241 (Japan)
Kawakami 2004 Harmony HCC2016 (Japan)
Milne 2006 Hyperion CDA67491/2
Moser 2008 Oehms OC726
Vidovic 2009 Croatia Records
Di Wu 2009/Fort Worth* Cliburn Classics VCF090530C
Osborne 2012 Hyperion CDA67936
Noack 2014 Artalinna ATL-A014
Burdin 2018 Global Sound Records
Ang 2023 Bandcamp (vol.III)
no.1
H L Anderson 1937 Iragen 2R-29-03 IPAM Records 1206
Nielsen 1955-60 Northern Flowers NF/PMA 9982
Svetlanov 1980 Melodiya C10-15855/6 Warner 5101124942, Evgeny Svetlanov Foundation SVET 42-47 6cds, Russian Disc RDCD10045 - nla
María Teresa Rodríguez 1980s Luzam LUMC-8602
Demidenko 1992 Helios CDH55315, Hyperion CDA66636 - nla
Pleshakov 1993 Sonpact SPT92003
Klimov 1995 Ottavo OTR C79552
Berezovsky 1995 Teldec 4509-96516-2 - nla, Warner Classics 2564664684 10cds
Agus 1996 Protone PRCD1108 - nla
Tropp 1997 Denon COCO-70755, COCO-80837 - nla, CO-18080 - nla
Mejoueva 1998 Denon (vol.1) COCO-70756, COCQ-83112 - nla
Calevro c.1998 Phoenix Italy 98240
Tao c.1998 Eroica JDT3015
Mochernuk 2001 Kalinka Recordings
Kafarova 2003 Nova Classical 7X4979 Indie Pool
J Siegel c.2005 penguinrandomhouseaudio.com
Feoktistova 2008 MSR MS1326
Sudbin 2009-2014 BIS-SACD-1848
Dimitrieva 2014 Sonus Eterna
Mejoueva 2016/Ryuto* Wakabayashi Koubou WAKA4201
Safonova c.2021 Etcetera KTCKTC1744
Vorotnaya 2022 Artalinna ATL-A042
no.2
Sofronitsky 1947 Melodiya 14917/8 Aprelevka Melodiya D 19493/4 Urania URNSP4258, Classound 2003008, Denon COCO-80188 - nla, Arlecchino 174 - nla
Berezovsky 2006/Essen* 
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Basilova 2019 TRPTK TTK 0041
Transcription of Op 20 no 1 for violin and piano
by Jascha Heifetz, published 1949 by Carl Fischer, New York. Dedicated to Horowitz
Heifetz/Bay 1946
Victor 10-1295 (set M 1126), HMV DA1914
RCA Red Seal ARM4-0946,
RCA Red Seal R233261,
Melodiya M10-44305/8 RCA Gold Seal 09026 61737-2, BMG BVCC37129-132 4cds -
nla
Rosand/Covelli c.1983 Turnabout TV34799 Vox ACD8201
Aharonian/Safonova 1999 Delos DE3351
Gluzman/Yoffe 2006 BIS 1652
Kayaleh/Stewart 2007 Naxos (vol.1) 8570298
Kamio/Krutyshev 2014 Sony SICC-1714
Leong/Chiu c.2015 Analekta AN29160
Revich/Osetinskaya 2019 Melodiya MELCD 10-02608
Ioudenitch/Broberg 2022 Warner Classics 5419737407
I have a 1923 Soviet edition of the pair, and an Édition Russe de Musique of Op 20 no 1 that can be dated 1921-1922 from the format of the cover. I have referred to this edition as "1921" in the variorum. Although my copy bears the original plate no. and is doubtless based on the same engraving, it does not follow that it is identical to the original 1910 edition because Koussevitsky often added markings to scores published after he reconstituted Édition Russe de Musique in Paris in 1921. It is more likely that the 1923 Soviet edition, although re-engraved, follows the original as it lacks some of the markings in the 1921 edition. The variorum is written on the assumption that the reader is in possession of the 1959 Collected Edition; the Dover is identical apart from translations of the Russian. No.1 also features in an anthology published in 1941 in New York. It is identical to the 1921 edition and uses the same engraving.
Note the misprint in the 1959 edition in bar 51 of Op 20 no 2. The majority of performers have not spotted this even though E natural is musically incorrect in the context of the previous and following bars. There is another error in bar 114, and a few minor or obvious errors elsewhere in this piece and in Op 20 no 1.
Op 20 no 1
There are no fingerings in the 1921 and 1923 editions.
- Bar 1 (upbeat)
1923: plena voce (not pleno; similarly bar 38); lacks con Pedale
- Bar 8
1959: error in RH, 3rd beat, top of 2nd chord should be C not Db
- Bars 9, 43
1921 & 1923: upper stems in the LH absent
- Bars 12-13
1921: Pedal mark on each of the four beats of bar 12, and the first beat of bar 13
- Bar 13
All editions are consistent in starting the RH legato slur on the final two chords, however in both his 1930 and 1936 recordings Medtner plays these two chords mezzo staccato, as marked in the LH.
- Bar 16
1923: diminduendo hairpin missing
- Bar 18
1923: hairpins absent; f on last chord of 3rd beat
- Bar 19
1921: first chord missing A from RH and bottom C from LH; hairpin peaking on C over first two beats of LH
1923: first chord missing upper C from LH octave
1921 & 1923: half-note C in RH tied to preceding C in LH. The absence of this tie in the 1959 edition may be an error. Medtner's 1930 and 1936 recordings are unclear as the RH is barely audible.
- Bars 20-22
1921: Pedal marks on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th beats of bar 20, all four beats of bar 21, and the first beat of bar 22
- Bar 28
1921 & 1923: LH hairpins absent
- Bar 30
1921 & 1923: comma at bar end absent
- Bar 31
1921: (p) and comma absent
1923: hairpins, (p) and comma absent
- Bar 32
1921 & 1923: pedal mark and (p) absent
- Bar 33
1921 & 1923: Gb tied between the 2nd and 3rd notes of the triplet in RH 3rd beat. Medtner usually tied notes shared by a slurred pair of chords and does so in his 1936 recording, so this is probably an error in the 1959 edition.
- Bar 36
1921 & 1923: comma absent
- Bar 37
1921: senza ritardare absent
1923: senza ritardare, sfrenatamente absent
- Bars 38, 41
1921 & 1923: f absent at start of bar
- Bar 39
1921 & 1923: accent on whole note, start of bar. The accent is noticeable in both Medtner's recordings.
- Bar 43
1921 & 1923: LH last two notes are F2 and F3; no upper stems in LH
- Bar 46
1921: LH last two chords lack A natural
- Bar 47
1921 & 1923: sempre marcato il basso absent
- Bar 48
1923: error, b missing from E in 4th beat of RH
- Bar 49
1921 & 1923: sempre calmando (ma a tempo) absent
- Bar 50
1921 & 1923: RH 3rd beat ties Bb between 2nd and 3rd chords, paralleling the previous bar. The omission of this tie in the 1959 is doubtless an error; see also bar 33. Medtner ties the Bb in his 1936 recording.
- Bar 51
1923: calando absent
- Bar 52
1921 & 1923: pause under LH chord absent
Op 20 no 2
The title "Campanella" and the subtitle are absent from the 1923 edition. It also lacks the indications tenebroso and sempre al rigore di tempo e sostenuto, reiterated in the footnote of the 1959 edition. These are all handwritten additions to Medtner's own copy of the original edition (reproduced in Natascha Konsistorum's biography) except that Medtner's footnote reads "Whoever finds it boring to play this al rigore di tempo had better leave this piece alone". As Barrie Martyn points out in his biography, Medtner was so insistent on this point that he wrote out the marking separately on each of the nine pages.
Not all recordings observe Medtner's instruction.
The 1923 edition has no pedal marks.
- Bar 1
1923: tenebroso and sempre con poco Pedale absent
- Bars 29, 33
1923: hairpin dynamic absent
- Bar 34
1923: dolce absent
- Bar 50
1923: accents on first chord in RH and LH absent
- Bar 51
1923: Eb not E in the LH. This is an obvious error in the 1959 edition. Medtner plays Eb, but some performers play E natural
- Bars 62-64
1923: tenuto marks absent
- Bar 66
1923: accent on C in RH absent
- Bar 70
1923: fp absent
- Bars 73-74
1923: hairpin crescendo to f absent
- Bars 76-77
1923: hairpin diminuendo absent
- Bar 78
1923: meno f cantabile absent
- Bars 82-95
1923: all dynamics except the ff in bar 90 absent
- Bars 98, 100
1923: hairpin in LH absent
- Bars 109-113
1923: RH accents absent; ff and hairpin in bar 113 absent
- Bar 114
1959: error in RH, 3rd beat, 2nd note should be G not F#. This change appears in the errata to the Collected Edition published with volume 3, but has not been corrected in the Dover edition.
- Bar 117
1923: RH accents absent
- Bars 121-122
1923: hairpin crescendo from start of bar 121 to halfway through bar 122
1959: dimin to mf
- Bar 126
1923: ff absent
- Bars 131-end
1923: lacks sempre ff, sempre al rigore di tempo al fine, the long slur in the RH, and the two ff marks at the end. The fingerings of the 1959 edition appear without the misprinted 1 on the E# of bar 134. The low B in the final bar is an eighth-note followed by two eight-note rests; the 1959 edition is clearly in error in giving quarter-notes.
