Nikolai Medtner: Sonata 'Night wind' (Sonata Op. 25 No. 2 in E minor) - Synthesia tutorial скачать в хорошем качестве

Nikolai Medtner: Sonata 'Night wind' (Sonata Op. 25 No. 2 in E minor) - Synthesia tutorial

For originality of style and large-scale structural control, Medtner's Sonata was a landmark both in Russian music and in the history of the piano sonata generally. Myaskovsky wrote to Prokofiev, 'You missed a unique pleasure hearing Medtner. I have come to the conviction that his is a colossal talent of the strongest and most precious kind. His last Sonata in E minor is a masterpiece, one of the most substantial and outstanding compositions of the present time.' At a performance in March 1916, Rachmaninoff applauded 'until the lights were put out', although even he came to feel that the daunting length of some of Medtner's sonata developments might prove an obstacle to acceptance. Indeed, this may have been one of the works he later urged the composer to cut. Medtner's Night Wind Sonata is a titanic conception. It is a so unabashedly Medtnerian. It is easily a contender for the best modern classical sonata that has been created in the last century. In truth, the scale of its structure and the profusion of its ideas create intellectual and imaginative demands that can only be met by becoming thoroughly familiar with the work - a feat made difficult by its colossal technical problems. As with any great but complex work of art, it is not for Everyman; but for those to whom it is accessible, its riches are wonderful indeed. This sonata consumed me. It encompasses an impossible 67 pages on MS3. Its score is so unfathomably dense and jam-packed with information that, upon editing it after weeks of hard work, I was left physically fatigued. It takes a miracle, a one in a century talent, to have come up with something so complex. So beautiful, so haunting. While painstakingly and laboriously notating this piece, note by note, I came to realize the true genius of Medtner. No note is wasted. No motif is underdeveloped. No soundscape goes unexplored. Medtner's magnum opus left me with such a renewed appreciation for his music and for music in general. It is so vast in scale and yet so incredibly tight, made with such clear disdain for the trite scholasticism that reigned supreme in his time. 0:00 - Sonata 'Night wind' 0:04 - I. Introduzione, Andante 2:51 - II. Allegro (in 15/8!) 17:27 - III. Tempo dell'introduzione 20:09 - IV. Allegro molto sfrenatamente 29:16 - V. Quasi cadenza