Medtner/ Fomina/ Karpeyev - Songs Fulfilled By AEC as so often during that

as so often during that time in history

while Lamon alternates between a copy of a harpsichord from 1681 and no less than two historic organs

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This album aims to transport the listener straight into the atmosphere of a traditional milonga

Medtner/ Fomina/ Karpeyev - Songs Fulfilled By AEC as so often during thatLike his friend and contemporary Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner enjoyed a privileged and affluent upbringing, and was also exiled from Russia following the revolution in 1917. Unlike Rachmaninoff, Medtner could point to an ancestry that was part German, and his father's passion for Germanic culture ensured that Goethe and Beethoven exerted as much influence on the young Medtner as Russian composers and writers, in particular Beethoven's piano sonatas