Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters - Medtner: Complete Songs (5 CD Box Set) (2025)

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Artist: Ekaterina Levental, Frank Peters
Title: Medtner: Complete Songs
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 5:44:01
Total Size: 1 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

One of the most important vocal projects of recent years: the complete songs on 5 CDs by Nikolai Medtner, performed by Ekaterina Levental and Frank Peters.
Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow in 1880. After piano lessons with his mother he entered the Moscow Conservatory where he had lessons from Pavel Pabst and Sergey Taneyev. He won the prestigious Anton Rubinstein Prize at age 20. A younger contemporary of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff he was destined for a brilliant pianistic career but he chose to concentrate on composition. In 1936 he settled in London where he spent the rest of his life teaching and composing till 1951.
Medtner’s style is rooted in the 19th century, full-blooded romantic, with a highly personal harmonic and melodic language, often complex and dense, but hauntingly beautiful. His vocal works fuse intricate piano accompaniments with expressive melodies and poetic texts, often by Goethe, Pushkin, or Tyutchev.
Ekaterina Levental was born in Uzbekistan. She settled in The Netherlands where she studied at the Conservatory of The Hague. She embarked on a successful career as singer, dramatist and theatre producer. Pianist Frank Peters is a highly respected Dutch pianist, both as soloist and chamber music partner. He is an indefatigable champion of the piano works of Medtner.
‘Levental’s soft high notes are truly exquisite, and she can do things with the voice that most modern singers cannot, such as to drain the voice of vibrato for expressive effect. All things considered, she is a virtuoso vocalist of the old school, and such artists are extremely rare nowadays…

“We are very lucky to have a pianist like Peters, who fully understands this dichotomy, as the pianist on this album.” (Artmusiclounge.com).

“Levental has a dark, rich voice, but her pure tone is never burdened by excess vibrato… She couldn’t ask for a more responsive partner than Peters, who reveals an astonishingly deft touch and an uncanny ear for detail.” Fanfare (Volume 1, 96056).

“The phrasing is so perfect, the sense of line so keen, the rubato so natural sounding, that this seems the only way to sing them… this lucidity is due to the purity of Levental’s voice, which she employs with sure intonation and minimum vibrato, as well with an exquisite (but always controlled) play of colour… This is a major release.” Fanfare (Volume 2, 96061).

Tracklist:

CD1 - Incantation - [72:18]
Nikolai Medtner
3 Romances Op.3
1. I. At the gates of the holy cloister
2. II. I've lived to see desire vanish
3. III. On the lake
2 Poems Op.13
4. I. Winter evening
5. II. Epitaph
8 Poems Op.24
6. I. Day and night
7. II. Willow, why do you lower
8. III. The wave and the thought
9. IV. Twilight
10. V. I am dumbstruck
11. VI. Should a smile gently brighten your face
12. VII. Tender whisper, timid breathing
13. VIII. I have come to you, delighted
7 Poems Op.28
14. I. Unexpected rain
15. II. I can't listen to this birdsong
16. III. Butterfly
17. IV. Heavy, dark and faded
18. V. Peace in Springtime
19. VI. I sit deep in thought and alone
20. VII. Lord, send your comfort
7 Poems after Pushkin, Op.29
21. I. Muse
22. II. The singer
23. III. Night piece
24. IV. The horse
25. V. Elegy
26. VI. The rose
27. VII. Incantation

CD2 - Sleeplessness - [72:11]
Nikolai Medtner
6 Poems Op.32
1. No.1 The Echo
2. No.2 Retrospect
3. No.3 Message
4. No.4 I Loved You Well
5. No.5 Waltz
6. No.6 To a Dreamer
6 Poems after Pushkin Op.36
7. No.1 The Angel
8. No.2 The Faded Flower
9. No.3 When Roses Fade
10. No.4 Spanish Romance
11. No.5 Night
12. No.6 Arion
5 Poems Op.37
13. No.1 Sleepless
14. No.2 Tears
15. No.3 Impromptu
16. No.4 Waltz
17. No.5 Night Winds
4 Poems Op.45
18. No.1 Elegy
19. No.2 The Coach of Life
20. No.3 Song of Night
21. No.4 Our Time

CD3 - Angel - [65:12]
Nikolai Medtner
1. The Angel Op.1 bis
Suite Vocalise Op.41 No.2
2. Introduction & Song of the Nymphs
3. Secrets
4. Procession of the Graces
5. What the Poet Speaks
Songs after Pushkin Op.52
6. No.1 The Window
7. No.2 The Ravens
8. No.3 Elegy
9. No.4 Visions
10. No.5 Spanish Romance
11. No.6 Serenade
12. No.7 The Prisoner
Sonata Idyll Op.56
13. I. Pastorale: Allegretto cantabile
14. II. Allegro moderato e cantabile
3 Unpublished Songs
15. Prayer
16. Epitaph Op.13a
17. Psalm

CD4 - Wanderer's Nightsong - [62:54]
Nikolai Medtner
Lieder Op.6
1. No.1 Wandrer's Nachtlied II
2. No.2 Mailied
3. No.3 Elfenliedchen
4. No.4 Im Vorubergehn
5. No.5 Liebliches Kind
6. No.6 Inneres Wuhlen
7. No.7 Sieh Mich, Heil'ger
8. No.8 Erster Verlust
9. No.9 Gefunden
Gedichte Op.12
10. No.1 Lieb Liebchen
11. No.2 Lyrisches Intermezzo
12. No.3 Bergstimme
Lieder Op.15
13. No.1 Wandrer's Nachtlied I
14. No.2. An die Turen will ich schleichen
15. No.3 Selbstbetrug
16. No.4 Sie liebt mich!
17. No.5. So tanzet
18. No.6. Vor Gericht
19. No.7 Meerestille
20. No.8. Gluckliche Fahrt
21. No.9 Nahe des Geliebten
22. No.10 Der untreue Knabe
23. No.11 Gleich und Gleich
24. No.12 Geistergruss
Gedichte Op.18
25. No.1 Die Sprode
26. No.2 Die Bekehrte
27. No.3 Einsamkeit
28. No.4 Mignon
29. No.5 Das Veilchen
30. No.6 Jagers Abendlied

CD5 - Sacred Place - [71:24]
Nikolai Medtner
Drei Gedichte von Nietzsche Op.19
1. No.1 Gruss
2. No.2 Alt Mutterlein
3. No.3 Heimweh
Zwei Gedichte von Nietzsche Op.19a
4. No.1 Heimkehr
5. No.2 Ver.zweiflung
Sonate-Vocalise mit einem Motto von Goethe Op.41
6. No.1 Geweihter Platz
7. No.2 Sonate-Vocalise
Sieben Gedichte Op.46
8. No.1 Praeludium
9. No.2 Geweihter Platz
10. No.3 Serenade
11. No.4 Im Walde
12. No.5 Winternacht
13. No.6 Die Quelle
14. No.7 Frisch gesungen
Acht Lieder Op.61
15. No.1 Reiselied
16. No.2 Nachtgruss
17. No.3 So, what then is my name to you
18. No.4 If you find this life deceiving
19. No.5 Prayer
20. No.6 An uneventful afternoon
21. No.7 O my prophetic soul
22. No.8 When what we proudly ours called, Pacification
23. Wie kommt es?

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