Medtner: Complete Fairy Tales

Description

• Composer: Nikolai Medtner (1879-1951)
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Binding:
• ISBN: 9780486416830
• Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
• Pages: None

Description

This collection contains complex, surprising pieces by Nikolai Medtner, a brilliant, underrated Russian 20th-century Romantic whose music, though similar to that of his friend Rachmaninoff, is more cerebral and harmonically adventurous. These 34 fairy tales for piano highlight the composer’s gift for musical storytelling, with their intense polyrhythms, intricate textures, and complex harmonic development.

Works:

• 2 Fairy Tales (Две сказки), Op. 8
• 3 Fairy Tales (Три сказки), Op. 9
• 2 Fairy Tales (Две сказки), Op. 14
• 2 Fairy Tales (Две сказки), Op. 20
• 4 Fairy Tales (Четыре сказки), Op. 26
• “Tale” from 3 Pieces (Три пьесы), Op. 31
• Fairy Tale in D Minor (Сказка) (1915)