Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 - Paul Stewart

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.

Tracklist
 
Sonatina in G Minor (1898) (00:07:23 )
1
I. Allegretto, ma non troppo (00:02:42)
2
II. Scherzo: Allegro (00:04:47)
 
Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5 (1903) (00:31:00 )
3
I. Allegro (00:13:50)
4
II. Intermezzo: Allegro - (00:03:41)
5
III. Largo - (00:08:43)
6
IV. Finale: Allegro risoluto (00:09:12)
7
Forgotten Melodies, Op. 38: No. 1. Sonata reminiscenza (1922) (00:15:27)