Medtner: Forgotten Melodies

As a complement to Marc-André Hamelin’s new recording of the Dukas Piano Sonata and Abel Decaux’s Clairs de lune (CDA67513, released this month), we are pleased to offer this single-disc collection of Books 1 and 2 of Medtner’s Forgotten Melodies, taken from the acclaimed four-disc set of Medtner Piano Sonatas (CDA67221/4).

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‘I can only agree with the superlatives Hamelin has garnered from so many other reviewers. His technique is unsurpassed by any pianist of any era … he has prepared excellent new editions of both ...
‘Hamelin's transcendental technique is breathtaking in the bravura numbers, and he is even more compelling in the reflective numbers, such as Two Tales which deserve wide circulation’ (The Sunday Times)
‘Hamelin's performance captures the changing moods of this unjustly forgotten composer’ (Scotland on Sunday)