Medtner - The Complete Skazki
Hamish Milne (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits...
Medtner - The Complete Skazki
Hamish Milne (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Instrumental Choice
Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits...
About
The Skazki (‘Märchen’ in German; ‘Contes’ in French; the incorrect ‘Fairy Tales’ in English - as suggested by Medtner's wife) were the most personal of Medtner’s idioms and contain his most immediately appealing music: they are miniature tone poems full of atmosphere and colour and are arguably the most neglected ‘great’ piano music in the repertoire.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineMay 2007Instrumental Choice
May 2007
Milne is in complete technical and expressive command, bringing to them the fleetness and rhythmic spring, the varied character and wit, that all Medtner's music needs. He crests the summits of their virtuosity with such ease one can concentrate throughout on the music, not the pianist, as Medtner intended.
Each one a unique gem of beguiling invention. Notoriously difficult to bring off, Hamish Milne makes some of the most exacting pages in the repertoire sound glorious
Hamish Milne is a wonderful guide to this world—his performances are both technically outstanding and musically penetrating
Pianist Magazine
Milne has recorded many epoch-making Medtner discs and his new collection of the complete Skazki stands out as his finest to date. The richness of ideas and the overwhelming range of expression is Medtner at his finest. Milne eclipses Geoffrey Tozer in his Chandos recording and I cannot think of
a pianist today who can better this

