Nikolai Karlovich Medtner 1880 - 1951 3 Tales Op.
9 No.
3 1904 - 1905
Performed by Christine Hye-Su Kim 2013
The Skazki Märchen in German Contes in French the incorrect Fairy Tales in English were the most personal of Medtners 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.
Of this set the third a brief pastoral idyllAllegretto vivo odoroso odoroso meaning fragrantis explained by Medtners admission that he was inspired here by Goethes sentimental lyric Gleich und Gleich:
Ein Blumenglöckchen
Vom Boden hervor
War früh gesprosset
In lieblichem Flor
Da kam ein Bienchen
Und naschte fein:
Die müssen wohl beide
Für einander sein.
A little bud
with a lovely blossom
sprang early
from the ground
along came a little bee
and sipped delicately:
they must have been made
for each other.
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