Arthur Catterall (violin)
Nicolas Medtner (pianoforte)

Nicolas Medtner Fairy Tales
1 in A, Op. 51, No. 3
2 in A minor. Op. 34, No. 3
3 in E minor. Op. 34, No. 2

March of Paladin, Op. 14

Nicolas Medtner was born in Moscow in 1880. He studied at the Moscow Conservatoire under Arensky, Safonov, and Taneiev. In 1900 he won a Gold Medal and made his debut as a pianist in Vienna in the Third International Competition, in which he carried off the Rubinstein prize. In 1909 Medtner was appointed professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, which post he occupied until 1921, when he left Russia. Recently he came to London, where he now lives permanently. On the surface his compositions are austere and intellectual, but underneath, his music is full of romantic feeling and his style is nowhere more characteristic than in his short piano pieces and chamber music.