Recordings

Nikolai Medtner Fairytale op. 26 no 3 in f minor

Medtner’s music astonishes and delights… you may fancy that you have heard the melody before… But where, when, from whom, in childhood, in a dream, in delirium? You will scratch your head and strain your memory in vain: you have not heard it anywhere: in human ears it sounds for the first time…And yet it is as though you had long been waiting for it – waiting because you ‘knew’ it, not in sound, but in spirit.