Release Date: 09 September 2022
Label: Grand Piano
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313988822
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Nikolay Medtner
Description
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.’
JULIA SEVERUS
JOUNI SOMERO
Josu De Solaun
Aleyson Scopel
Jean-Pierre Armengaud
Gottlieb Wallisch
Eleonor Bindman; Susan Sobolewski
Paul Stewart
