Paul Stewart - Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.2 (2016)

Nikolay Medtner’s 14 piano sonatas are considered the most significant achievement in this genre by any composer since Beethoven. After the success of his First Piano Sonata (GP617) he turned to Goethe for inspiration, and the life and love-affirming Sonata-Triad Op. 11 translates the poet’s words of passion, suffering and redemption into sound. The capricious, mysterious and beautiful Sonata-Skazka is a masterpiece in miniature and was once Medtner’s most performed work. Dating from his years of exile, the eloquent themes of the fourteenth and final Sonata-Idyll linger long in the memory.

TRACKLIST

01 - Sonata-Triad, Op.11 - 1 in A-Flat
02 - Sonata-Triad, Op.11 - 2 in D Minor, 'Sonata-Elegy'
03 - Sonata-Triad, Op.11 - 3 in C Major
04 - Märchen-Sonate in C Minor, Op. 25 - 1, I. Allegro abbandonamente
05-06 - Märchen-Sonate in C Minor, Op. 25 - 1, II. Andantino con moto & III. Allegro con spirito
07 - Sonata-Idylle in G Major, Op.56, I. Pastorale Allegretto cantabile
08 - Sonata-Idylle in G Major, Op.56, II. Allegro moderato e cantabile