Geoffrey Tozer – Medtner: Piano Works, Vol. 7 (2001/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:25 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
There are few stranger, more recondite figures in the entire history of music than Nikolai Medtner. Recently he has been rescued from near oblivion by Hamish Milne, Geoffrey Tozer and Marc-Andre Hamelin in particular, who have, in their different ways, cast a penetrating and affectionate light on music which after repeated hearings subtly insinuates itself into the listener’s consciousness. The moods, particularly in the seventh volume of Geoffrey Tozer’s Chandos cycle, are primarily introspective, whether simply or floridly expressed. Most of the ideas, too, bear a family likeness suggesting a continuous return to a fabric or dreamscape of happier times and places; nostalgia was always central to Medtner’s haunting genius.
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