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Medtner: Songs (2CDs)SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Following the rapturous reception given to his complete Rachmaninov: Songs on Delphian, pianist Iain Burnside set out to bring together six regular collaborators in a survey of songs by Nikolai Medtner. Born into a family that was both prosperous and well read, Medtner was deeply immersed in the heady intellectualism of the era. More than any other genre, his songs exemplify his dual German Russian heritage, manifest

possibly sung to Queen Mary on the eve of her coronation in 1553 – the celebrated Vox patris caelestis and

the 'nineteenth-century equivalent of Stravinsky's piano duet version of The Rite of Spring suggest the notes - and they certainly make you believe it

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Album ID: DCD34219

musicality and enthusiasm…[the choir] give a bracing vigour and unusual freedom to this ancient music

it is a hugely rewarding and important disc

Following the freshness and vigour of their quincentenary portrait celebration of Robert Fayrfax

"Burnside has enlisted singers who can bring an apt kaleidoscope of colour to this repertoire…Medtner is give a new

this programme is illuminating in its contrasts and for what it reveals about these two very different figures…Foyle and Štšura handle it with commanding aplomb…[Penderecki’s] Sonata No

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Release Date: 7 April 2014

Paxton’s work finds happiness in mess

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