Composer: Nikolai Medtner
Performer: Paul Stewart
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Grand Piano
Catalogue: GP617
Release: 2012
Size: 210 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sonatina in G minor
01. I. Allegretto, ma non troppo
02. II. Scherzo: Allegro
Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Intermezzo: Allegro
05. III. Largo
06. IV. Finale: Allegro risoluto
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 38
07. No. 1. Sonata reminiscenza
Like his near-contemporary Rachmaninov, who called him ‘the greatest composer of our time’, Nikolay Medtner was a composer, pianist and an exile from his native Russia. His portfolio of works includes a remarkable series of pieces for his own instrument, including fourteen sonatas and some hugely evocative, deeply poetic miniatures. Medtner’s gift for melody is immediately discerned in the early Sonatina in G minor. The Sonata No. 1, Op. 5, his first large-scale work, enshrines autobiographical elements and is both intense and spiritually charged. Poetry and nostalgia flood the beautiful Sonata-Reminiscenza in A minor. This is the first volume of a complete cycle of the Medtner Piano Sonatas.