Levental Peters - Complete Songs 1Medtner's legacy for solo piano is now widely esteemed alongside Rachmaninoff and other giants of the Russian 'silver age': melodists to their core, romantics at heart, yet rigorous craftsmen to their fingertips, who took their muse seriously and refined their inspiration to distil a peculiarly Russian spirit of melancholy in sound. However, around a third of Medtner's output, measured by opus numbers, was dedicated to voices, and this section of his

and die-hard tape traders around the world

His oeuvre includes nearly three dozen operettas and light operas as well as countless farces and comedies

The Wild One

They never had tangible record success

from the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk

but he left no concertos in which the instrument takes the spotlight

The pieces are poignant in the truest sense of the word and take hold of the listener

Rutter/ Matt/ Nordic Chamber Choir - Choral Works: I My Best Beloved's Am

studded with six albums throughout the final decade of the last century

Document of Eddie Izzard's sold-out performance at New York's Madison Square Garden on his 2010 Stripped tour

Frans Helmerson at the Edsberg Institute of Music in Stockholm

Alfven/ Matt/ Amadeus-Chor - Scandinavian Choir Music