This is the third volume of Nikolai Medtner’s complete songs for Brilliant Classics by soprano Ekaterina Levental and pianist Frank Peters. It contains his Op. 1, The Angel, as properly as a Sonata-Idyll for solo piano, ending with three unpublished songs. This might sign to the uninitiated that this could be the final quantity on this series, but we still have extra songs to cowl, so keep your eyes open for a minimum of yet one more volume to come. But at least we’re getting closer to having the majority of Medtner’s songs available. An interesting assortment, then, and although not all of those pieces are interesting, none of them are bad or poorly written.
In common, art music is very formalized music during which most if not all elements are specified prematurely in written form, and never improvised or left to the performer’s discretion. Art music refers to classical …
