Forgotten Melodies, First Cycle, Op 38

Recordings

complete
Malinina 1976-80 Melodiya C10-26001/2
Tozer 1991/2 Chandos CHAN9723 4cds, #1 CHAN9050, Brilliant Classics 9195 7cds, 8851 7cds, #2-8 CHAN9153

Konsistorum 1996 A-FAIR 1187, also included with her biography pub. Henschel
Hamelin 1996/8 Hyperion CDA67221/4, CDA67578
Ossipova 2001 Arte Nova ANO931210
Andrews 2004 CD Baby
Mejoueva 2006 Wakabayashi WAKA-4117
Derzhavina 2008 Phoenix Edition 156, #3,6 Crystal Classics N67012 3CDs
Leschenko 2011 Avanti AVTC SACD1039
Smith 2018 Blue Griffin
Sarkisian c.2019 DOM-Forlane 16891
Ometto 2020-21 Piano Classics PCL10223, PCL10281 10cds
Forte 2022 Odradek Records ODRCD430
Ang 2022 download Bandcamp (vol.I)
Balogh 2024 Hungaroton HCD 32900

no. 1 Sonata-reminiscenza
Ginsburg (Ginzburg) 1957† Melodiya D 035299/300 Philips 456 802-2 - nla, Triton DMCC-24035 - nla, Arlecchini ARL A15

Flier 1959* Melodiya M10-44341/8 4LPs St-Laurent Studio YSL 33-093, Scribendum SC841 15CDs
Zakharieva 1968 Balkanton BKA1080

Gilels 1968/Moscow* Melodiya D 027725/6 Leningrad export, Melodiya/Eurodisc 86 889 XFK Melodiya/CNR 691429 Olympia MKM140, Melodiya MELCD 10-00790, MELCD 10-00792 5cds, BMG/Melodiya 74321 40117-2 - nla, 74321 40126-2 5cds - nla, BMG/Melodiya BVCX4084 - nla, Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga MK417072 - nla, Philips 456 796-2 - nla, PHCP20591-2 - nla, Bianco e Nero BN2437/2 - nla

Gilels 1969/New York* Melodiya CM 04203/6 Aprelevka Leningrad 1 Leningrad 2 export 1, export 2 export 3 Melodiya/Eterna 826619, Melodiya/HMV ASD2544, EMI 1C 187-91525/6, 3C 165-91545/6, SLS 2900113, Melodiya/Angel SR-40104, Melodiya/Quintessence 2PMC-2708, Musical Heritage Society MHS 824369, Victor VIC-5097, Shingakai SMK-7650 Victor/JVC VICC2088, Music & Arts CD-773, Bianco e Nero BN2437/2 - nla, Russian Compact Disc RCD16278

Postnikova 1980/Moscow* Melodiya C10-14929/30 download Melodiya MELCO0398
Paperno 1983/Chicago* Cedille CDR 90000 044
Feofanov 1985 Orion ORS86494
Kramreiter 1987 Ex Libris CD6074 - nla
N Hill 1989 Simax PSC1068
Fellegi 1990 Marco Polo 8223372
Viardo 1990/1 Nonesuch 7559-79283-2
Madge 1991 BIS BISCD1258, Danacord DACOCD403 - nla
Hanselmann 1993 Prezioso (vol.1) CD800.014
Kumamoto 1997 King KICC-229 (Japan)
Calevro c.1998 Phoenix Italy 98240
Cruzprieto 1999 Quindecim Recordings QP034 (Mexico)
Elen Rapoport 2000 own label ER 0001 - nla
Kawakami 2000 Momonga MRCP-1001 (Japan)
Zafariants c.2001 ALM Records ALCD7068
Schönleber 2001 Orbis Records - nla
Lehtinen 2001 Mils Musiikki MILS 0184 (Finland)
Dacic 2002 download various websites
Rankovich 2003 Phoenix USA PHCD158/Eroica JDT158
Kissin 2004 RCA 82876-65389-2, BMG BVCC-31084
Starchenko c.2007 Nikotin TFN CD 267/07 (Russia)
Scheps 2007/Moers* Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr AVI 8553115 3cds
Feoktistova 2008 MSR MS1326
Vinnitskaya 2009 Naïve AM177
Iorov 2009/Moscow* Moscow Conservatory SMC CD 0119-122 4cds
Shishkina 2011 Urtext JBCC197
Stewart 2011 Grand Piano GP617
Kadouch 2011 Mirare MIR170
Avdeeva 2011 download Fuga Libera FUG725
Splett 2011 Merlin VA00211983
Primakov (live undated) LP Classics LP1004
Taverna 2013 Somm SOMMCD0142
Sudbin 2009-2014 BIS-SACD-1848
Bakker c.2014 STH Quality Classics 1415032
Paley 2015 La Musica LMU005
Zassimova 2015 Hänssler Classic HC 18022
Zaitseva c.2016 download Classical Records (Moscow)
Lee 2017 Odradek Records ODRCD356
Berlinskaya 2017 Melodiya MELCD 1002526
Sukharevich c.2019 ClassicaDalVivo CDL/0619
Karajeva 2020 Gramola 99227
Masleev c.2020 Melodiya MEL CO 0874
Tashko 2020 Velut Luna CVLD 332
Stuparevic 2021 Navona Records NV6423
Violetta Fialko 2022 Divine Art DBU 20211

nos. 1, 2, 4
Svetlanov 1980-83 #1 Melodiya C10-20731 #2,4 Melodiya C10-15855/6 Warner 5101124942, Evgeny Svetlanov Foundation SVET 42-47 6cds, Russian Disc RDCD10045 - nla, Melodiya MELCD 10-01927 2cds, SUCD 10-00175/6 - nla

nos. 1, 3
Vaulin 1995 Classico CLASSCD427, EMI 7243 5561192

nos. 1, 6
Demidenko 1992 Helios CDH55315, Hyperion CDA66636 - nla

nos. 2, 3
Hanselmann 1998 Prezioso (vol.2) CD800.037

nos. 2, 3, 5, 6
Mejoueva 2018/Tokyo* Wakabayashi WKSP-1018/21

nos. 2, 3, 6
Mejoueva 1998 Denon (vol.1) COCO-70756, COCQ-83112 - nla

no. 2, 6
Pratt 1966 York 27001

no. 3 Danza festiva
Medtner 1925 piano roll Nimbus NI8801 download free from The Pianola Institute, Peter Phillips Novus promusica on Spotify, Amazon Music.
Medtner 1931 Appian (vol.1) APR5546, St-Laurent (vol.5) YSL 78-023
Medtner 1936 HMV DB3005, Victor 14511 Melodiya D 7845/6 Aprelevka Riga Appian (vol.2) APR5547, EMI CDC7-54839-2 reissued by ArkivMusic, EMI 2175752 22cds, St-Laurent (vol.4) YSL 78-007, Melodiya MELCD 10-02200 [date assumed], Dante HPC130 - nla
Petri 1941/New York* Pearl GEMMCD9156
Petri 1958* Dell'Arte DA9009 Music & Arts CD772 - nla
A Schein 1960 Kapp KCL9042, KC-9042-S alt label
E Hall 1966 AVS AV1056
Iles 1968 St-Laurent YSL 78-262
S Conus before 1988* download Jeanne d'Arc records - nla
Hamelin 1994/London* Hyperion CDA66765
Kafarova 2003 Nova Classical 7X4979 Indie Pool
Yonekawa 2011 T & K Entertainment QACK-30003
Bulkina c.2016 Piano Recital
Broberg 2021 Steinway & Sons STNS 30198

nos. 3, 4, 6
Filonova 2004 Ar Re-Se AR20059

nos. 3, 6
Zilberstein 1992 DG 437 805-2GH - nla
Tarasevich-Nikolaev 2017 Decca 4833922

nos. 3, 6–8
Grinberg 1948 Denon COCQ-83980, COCO-80471 - nla, Scribendum SC814 34CDs

no. 6 Canzona serenata
Iles 1965 St-Laurent YSL 78-212
Paperno 1983/Chicago* Cedille CDR 5001
Polionov 1991 Klavins KM14
Klimov 1995 Ottavo OTR C79552
Glover 2000 own label - nla
Mejoueva c.2008? TDK Core TDCS0053
Mejoueva 2011/Kyoto* Wakabayashi WKLC7011
Skolarski 2012 DUX 902 (Poland)
Chochieva 2016 Danacord DACOCD789
Shishkin 2019 La Dolce Volta LDV223
Serebriakov c.2020 Blue Griffin BGR569
Martinez c.2022 download Novus Promusica

nos. 6–8
Paperno 1958‡ Melodiya D 5000/1 Leningrad Aprelevka export MK export
Paperno 1989 Cedille CDR 90000 001

no. 7 Danza Silvestra – original version
Ometto 2021 Piano Classics PCL10223, PCL10281 10cds, PCL10281 10CDs

no. 8 Alla reminiscenza
Shimada 2017 download Octavia Records/Cryston 4538182754634
Kim c.2018 Namus Classics

† Date from Philips; 1956 in IPQ

‡ No. 8 incorrectly listed as no. 1 Sonata-reminiscenza in the Bennett, BIRS and IPQ discographies. Date from Paperno's book Notes of a Moscow Pianist

The IPQ discography erroneously lists a recording by Medtner of Op 38 no 4 (it should be Op 39 no 4)

Transcription of Op 38 no 6 for balalaika
by Nikolay Osipov

Osipov balalaika/Osipov-Kaysarov piano 1934 Melodiya 251 listen at russian-records.com
Aleksandr Danilov balalaika 1979/80 Melodiya C20-11717/8

An earlier version of the cycle was premiered by Medtner on 28 January 1921. The programme was titled 'iz cycla "Priroda" (from the cycle "Nature") and contained the following 6 pieces:

The programme lacks Canzona fluviala and Danza rustica, and the order of the pieces differs from the published version. Danza rustica is known to have been completed in 1922. Other differences are:

The earlier versions of Danza silvestra and Canzona serenta are included in the Zen-On edition. Alla Coda is almost identical to the present Alla reminiscenza but is not separated from Canzona in the manuscript.

The Zen-On edition is based on the first edition (1922) and the Collected Edition and refers to two secondary sources: Alfred Laliberté's copy of the first edition with handwritten corrections by Medtner, and the manuscripts in the National Library of Canada, Ottawa. Generally the Collected Edition is preferred, but textual variants are given.

The differences between the 1922 and 1959 editions are mostly minor. For the Sonata-reminiscenza they are as follows. This variorum was written before I had seen the Zen-On edition: a few points of difference noted below are not mentioned in the English version of the Critical Notes in the Zen-On, and vice versa. There are fewer differences between editions in the other pieces of the cycle.

Op 38 no 1

Bar 1
The 1959 edition carries a footnote to the main tempo marking "All tempo changes should be imperceptible and always gradual, while keeping the general tempo steady"
Bar 17
The 1959 edition adds pochissimo before meno mosso
Bars 53, 55, 57
Quarter note in LH accented in 1959 edition
Bar 59
1959 edition carries a footnote to the tied E in the RH "The held notes are not to be accented"
Bar 61
1959 edition bears the footnotes "Everything is veiled, absolutely hushed and calm" and "Ritard on harmonic notes"
Bars 65, 69
First (accented) note in LH phrase marked p
Bar 152
1959 edition adds simplice after dolce
Bar 168-183 (start of Svegliando)
In the 1959 edition the f is in the RH and the sf in the LH. The RH chords are slurred in pairs in the first three bars. There is a hairpin diminuendo to p on the second beat of bar 169 and a hairpin crescendo in bar 171. The dynamic scheme is repeated in bars 176-179 and bars 180-183.
Bar 172
1922 edition omits the p in the LH
Bar 206
In the 1922 edition the mp applies to the theme in the LH. The 1959 edition may be in error
Bar 250
The 1959 edition marks the LH p
Bar 267
The RH chord is arpeggiated in the 1959 edition but not in the 1922 edition
Bar 268
The LH is marked poco dim in the 1959 edition
Bars 415-426
The lower A in the RH is tied through the following 3 bars in the 1959 edition, but not in the 1922 edition. The same note is tied from bar 423 up to the middle of bar 426.
Bars 418, 426
In the 1959 edition the Bs in the RH refer to the footnote "The lower notes in the figurations are slightly detached".

Date:	1916-22
For:	Piano
Published by:	Zimmermann 1922
Availability:	Zimmermann (1922, sep); Moscow: Muzyka (1959/1999); Zen-On (2003, ed. Takaku/Kawakami); Dover (nos. 1, 6, 8, 1959/1998)