Nikolaos Samaltanos - 32 Pieces for Piano / 4 Etudes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Nikolaos Samaltanos - 16 Melodies & Piano Music [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/26/2005

APR's landmark issue on three CDs of Nicolas Medtner's complete solo recordings, which included fifteen 78-rpm sides of previously thought lost Columbia recordings from 1931 and an unpublished HMV recording of his Violin Sonata No 1, are here reissued as a set. Medtner was a magnificent pianist, and these are definitive performances of many of his most important compositions.We can also hear him in Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, the only music other than his own, he was to record.For this issue we have added a track - his recording of the Russian Round Dance for two pianos where he is joined by Benno Moiseiwitsch - and made some further refinements to the sound quality of the transfers.

N. Medtner - Piano Concertos / Sonatas [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/25/2001