Nikolai Medtner, Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2 “Campanella“ or “Ominious Bells“ - Boris Bekhterev, Piano

Nikolai Medtner, Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2 “Campanella“ or “Ominious Bells“ - Boris Bekhterev, Piano Fairy Tale op. 20, called “Campanella” or “Ominious Bells,” evokes the image of Russian bells. Skazka op. 20, no. 2 has more objective characteristics than subjective. In this piece, an artist summons people for great events — in this case, the “bell of the humans.” Knowing that this fairy tale is written in 1909 — the period after the first revolution of 1905 — the poetic idea becomes more apparent. In Fairy Tale op. 20, no. 2, Medtner created a particular type of epic character tale, and gave the title “Campanella” — “song or tale of the bell, but not about the bell,” to this piece. In addition, in the original manuscript of this piece, in a section close the coda, Medtner wrote: “the bell of art.” “Thunder is heard in the ring of the bell,” Medtner said to his student Edna Isles about this piece. This is one of the works