COMPANY: Grand Piano
ARTIST: Paul Stewart
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Nikolai Medtner

Product: 747313988822

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Nikolay Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

Paul Stewart (piano)

Medtner: Piano Sonata in A minor, Op. 30
Medtner: Sonata in E minor, Op. 25 No. 2 'Night Wind'
Medtner: Sonata-Ballada in F sharp major, Op. 27

Medtner's 14 piano sonatas, the most significant achievement in this genre by any major composer since Beethoven, span his career. The Sonata-Ballade explores a tempestuous musical allegory – the triumph of Light over Darkness, of Faith over Doubt; while the Sonata in A minor is cast in a single, terse movement, with folkloric elements and frequent use of bell-like features that exude Russianness. By contrast, the ‘Night Wind’ Sonata is a monumental epic of exceptional complexity that stunned Rachmaninov and led composer and critic Sorabji to call it ‘the greatest piano sonata of modern times.’