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CHAMBER MUSIC BY
Nikolai Karlovich MEDTNER(1879 - 1951)
Concerts for the Composer's120th Anniversary
Moscow, 1999
27 November 1999

State Central Glinka Museum of Music

Three Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, opus 16
Aleksei Lundin, violin
Mikhail Lidsky, piano

Songs from opuses 29, 36, 45, 52
Natalia Suchkova, soprano
Mikhail Lidsky, piano


Songs from opuses 6, 13, 15, 46
Svetlana Usacheva, soprano
Artem Murashkin, piano


Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, opus 21
Aleksei Lundin, violin
Mikhail Lidsky, piano
3 December 1999

Gnessins Russian
Academy of Music


  Piano Sonatas:
in G minor, opus 22
in E minor, opus 25-2 (Night Wind) in F sharp major, opus 27 (Ballade),
in A minor, opus 30,
in G major, opus 56 (Idyll)

played by the students of Gnessins Russian Academy of Musicclass of Grigori Gordon,
Professor
4 December 1999

Shuvalova House

Sonata-Vocalise, īšus 41-1Piano pieces from opuses 20 & 38Songs from opuses 36 & 37
Olga Zhirova, soprano
Dmitri Klimov, piano


Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano, opus 44
Irina Pavlikhina, violin
Olga Makarova, piano
12 December 1999

Shuvalova House

Two Canzonas and Dances for Violin and Piano, opus 43
Aleksei Lundin, violin
Tatiana Fedoseyeva, piano


Songs from opuses 18, 19, 28, 37
Elena Korneva, mezzo-soprano
Olga Makarova, piano


Three Arabesques, īšus 7
Fairy-Tales from opuses 9, 35, 42
Sonate Oraguese, opus 53-2

Mikhail Lidsky, piano
15 December 1999

State Central Glinka Museum of Music

Three Dithyrambs, opus 10
Four Fairy-Tales, opus 26
Four Fairy-Tales, opus 34

Olga Makarova, piano

Songs from opuses 29, 32, 36, 45
Natalia Suchkova, soprano
Mikhail Lidsky, piano
17 December 1999

Moscow State ConservatoireRachmaninov Hall


Songs from opuses 6, 24, 36, 37, 45, 46, 52, 61
Aleksei Martynov, tenor
Mikhail Lidsky, piano


Two Pieces for Two Pianos, opus 58
Mikhail Lidsky, piano
Olga Makarova, piano


Piano Quintet in C major
Mikhail Lidsky, piano
Mozart Quartet

ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES
Tatiana Fedoseyeva graduated from The Odessa State Conservatoire, class of Professor Liudmila Ginsburg and attended a post-graduate course of The Moscow State Conservatoire, class of Professor Tatiana Gaydamovich. Prizewinner of national and international competitions. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad.

Dmitri Klimov graduated from The Moscow State Conservatoire in 1979, class of Pavel Messner. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad as a soloist and in various ensembles, makes recordings, e.g. at Radio Russia, BBC, Radio Romania and Ottavo Recordings (Scriabin/Medtner CD released in 1996). Soloist of the Moscow State Concert Philharmonic Association.

Elena Korneva graduated from The Gnessins Russian Academy of Music in 1997, class of Elena Obolenskaya. Now works at the Academy. Appears in various concerts.

Mikhail Lidsky

Aleksei Lundin graduated from The Gnessins Specialized Music School in 1990, class of Lia Shevrekuko and The Moscow State Conservatoire in 1997, classes of Professors Nadezhda Beshkina and Marina Yashvili (violin), Professor Alexander Bondouriansky (ensemble). Prizewinner of several international competitions. Soloist of The Moscow State Philharmonic Society. The concertmaster of the famous Virtuosi of Moscow. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad.

Olga Makarova
graduated from The Gnessins Russian Academy of Music in 1998, classes of Professors Vladimir Tropp and Grigori Gordon, and post-graduate course of The Moscow State Conservatoire, class of Professor Valery Kastelsky. A prizewinner of several international competitions. She has been the pianist of the Novoye Trio. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad, makes recordings.

Aleksei Martynov graduated from The Gnessins Russian Academy of Music as a violinist and The Moscow State Conservatoire, class of Professor Hugo Tietz. Soloist of The Moscow State Philharmonic Society, Honored Artist of Russia, a professor of The Moscow State Conservatoire. Gives concerts and makes recordings all over the world, performs at various opera houses. Issued many CDs.

Artem Murashkin has graduate from The Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, class of Professor Artur Berngardt.
Irina Pavlikhina graduated from The Gnessins Russian Academy of Music in 1989, class of Professor Khalida Akhtiamova. A prizewinner of several international competitions. Gives many concerts. Soloist of the Moscow State Concert Philharmonic Association.

Natalia Suchkova is the last student of the famous Russian baritone Leonid Privalov. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad. Has recorded all romances by Rachmaninov for Boheme label (published in 1999).
Svetlana Usacheva studied at The Moscow State Conservatoire as well as with Christian Boele in Switzerland and Finland. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad.

Olga Zhirova graduated from The Moscow State Conservatoire in 1984, class of Professor Vera Kudriavtseva-Lemesheva. Soloist of the Moscow State Concert Philharmonic Association. Merited Artist of Russia. Gives concerts in Russia and abroad.

The Mozart Quartet was established in 1998. The members of the ensembles are Aleksei Lundin (1st violin), Irina Pavlikhina (2nd violin), Anton Kulapov (viola), Vyacheslav Mariniuk (cello). The quartet was awarded the 1st prize of the Shostakovich Competition (Moscow, 2001) and now is involved into vast concert activities.



Ą. Ģ. Medtner. Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (in Russian) (ZIP)

Some more on Medtner:

http://web.mit.edu/eniale/www/music/medt.html
http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/medtner1951.html
http://www.russisches-musikarchiv.de/werkverzeichnisse/medtner-werkverzeichnis.htm
http://www.cybercd.fr/index.htm?id=3d09f01512771791|cmd=query|page=ausgabe_e.htm|qwords.Artist=Medtner
http://www.silverage.ru/music/metner_bio.html

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