{"title":"Nikolai Medtner","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse albums and recordings associated with Nikolai Medtner in the Reference Music Store catalogue. Available editions and details on each product page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"to-russia-with-love-kostandin-tashko","title":"To Russia with Love | Kostandin Tashko","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo Russia with Love\u003c\/strong\u003e follows Kostandin Tashko through piano music by Medtner, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Sonata Reminiscences is joined by The Nutcracker Suite in Pletnev’s transcription and Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFormats and editions\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCD — CVLD332CD\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHi-Res WAV file 88.2kHz · 24bit — CVLD332\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMusicians\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKostandin Tashko — piano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteinway \u0026amp; Sons D274, prepared and tuned by Silvano Zanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRecording and production\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal 88.2 kHz · 24-bit recording at Laboratorio Zanta, Camponogara, Italy, on 3 and 4 December 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduction: Velut Luna\u003cbr\u003eExecutive producer: Marco Lincetto\u003cbr\u003eRecording, mix and mastering: Marco Lincetto\u003cbr\u003eMusical production and editing: Mattia Zanatta\u003cbr\u003eText: Myriam Guglielmo\u003cbr\u003eInside photograph: Marco Lincetto\u003cbr\u003eDesign and layout: L’Image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTrack listing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikolaj Karlovi Medtner\u003cbr\u003e01 - Sonata Reminiscences op.38 in A minor n.1 from Forgotten Melodies I, 15'56\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky \u0026amp; Michail Vasil'evi Pletnëv\u003cbr\u003eThe Nutcracker Suite, 17'50\"\u003cbr\u003e02 - March, 1'59\"\u003cbr\u003e03 - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, 2'09\" \u003cbr\u003e04 - Tarantella, 1'22\"\u003cbr\u003e05 - Intermezzo, 4'13\"\u003cbr\u003e06 - Trépak (Russian Dance), 1'12\"\u003cbr\u003e07 - The Tea (Chinese Dance), 1'22\"\u003cbr\u003e08 - Pas de deux (Andante maestoso), 5'33\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky\u003cbr\u003eTrois mouvements de Pétrouchka, 17'40\" \u003cbr\u003e09 - Danse russe, 2'50\" \u003cbr\u003e10 - Chez Pétrouchka, 5'17\"\u003cbr\u003e11 - La semaine grasse, 9'33\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTot. time: 51'32\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTestimonials\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKostandin Tashko    \u003cbr\u003e \"... deep vision of the text, combined with great musical maturity. Very young, but already master of a very high level piano technique and a vast and important repertoire... \"\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Rivera, pianist (2020)\u003cbr\u003e\"..strong musical personality and talent clearly emerge from his artistic abilities...he never flaunts virtuosity for its own sake...he always subordinates it to a higher intellectual vision, which reflects a clear awareness of musical architecture.\"\u003cbr\u003eAlessandro Taverna, pianist (2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBiography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of numerous international competitions in Albania, Italy, Croatia, Great Britain, Macedonia, Kosovo, Switzerland-France, Slovenia, the Albanian pianist Kostandin Tashko has performed in important concert halls and festivals. His debut CD, on the KNS label, includes works by Liszt, Scriabin and Ravel. A student of the \"J.Misja\" High School in Tirana with Valbona Kasaj, he graduated with honours from the \"Giuseppe Tartini\" Conservatory of Music in Trieste under the guidance of Teresa Trevisan. Masterclasses with B.Lupo, A.Delle Vigne, R.Dalibaltayan, O.Gardon, D.Tomsic, R. Kinka, M.Miladinovic, V.Balzani, C.Elton, P.Gililov, N.Grubert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCritical notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussia! Piano writing between composition, transcription and restitution. The path proposed by Kostandin Tashko in the name of the Russian musical tradition unfolds along a path that, although traced within the twentieth-century context, tends to look back nostalgically at a past with vaguely defined contours, between Medtner's dreamlike late romanticism, Tchaikovsky's fairy-tale and Stravinsky's ancestral. The undisputed protagonist is the piano, an instrument historically linked to compositional activity both as a starting point for the drafting of piano pieces entrusted to the performance of the composer himself, and as the recipient of transcriptions taken from orchestral pieces by the author or later performers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eListen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius: 20px; border-color: white;\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/velutluna.lnk.to\/To-Russia-with-Love\" height=\"370\" border=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/velut-luna\"\u003eVelut Luna\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Velut Luna","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49993783968091,"sku":"CVLD332CD","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"File Hi-Res 88.2kHz · 24bit WAV","offer_id":46770488344923,"sku":"CVLD332","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/1016\/6580\/files\/folder_84ac6d7d-f8b9-4465-8c9c-4d113929c8d1.jpg?v=1685028515"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.referencemusicstore.com\/collections\/nikolai-medtner.oembed","provider":"Reference Music Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}