Back when a performance sounded like the actual performer! Just look at Gilels vs Moiseiwitsch here for example, both recordings so great yet so different, and you hear both of them in their own recordings respectively, their artistic nuances and overall styles. Today all pianists sound like the same slop. Make performances artistic again!
@@teodorb.p.composer Yes, it should. But what is strange is that the other 12 sonatas (I am excluding the sonata reminiscenza) are not popular as this g minor sonata's popularity. I would expect sonatas like Night Wind, Romanza, Ballade to be more popular. These, let's face it, are more skillfully written works.
@@fredericfrancoischopin6971 I would agree with the fact that they are more skillfully written thatn reminiscenza, but this g minor sonata is so ingenious, it has almost the most wonderfull motivic work of them.
A good selection of performances by some of Medtner's most ardent proponents. Apparently fellow composer York Bowen had also performed this work, although he didn't seem to record it. Side note: Bowen and Medtner are quite similar in some ways, particularly in how they clung to the Romantic idiom while other early-to-mid 20th century musical developments were occurring yet were harmonically innovative in their own rights. Many have likened Bowen to an "English Rachmaninov" but I think some of his pieces are comparable to Medtner too; one of the most Medtner-like pieces of Bowen in my opinion is the Prelude in C-sharp minor Op. 102 No. 4, which bears resemblance texturally and rhythmically to the more jagged sections of the Sonata Tragica or the "King Lear" Tale Op. 35 No. 4 (the latter of which it shares the same key with).
@@Vincent_Xia I‘ve been super interested in Bowen recently, especially the recordings he made of his own music! 20th century composer/pianists are pretty uncommon.
@@DreamBoatPianoArchive His own recordings are fantastic; I do intend on making score videos of at least some of them. I also would like to record some of his pieces (I've looked at a few of his preludes so far). So far the only interesting interpreter I've found of Bowen's piano music is Bowen himself (although I don't doubt there are other worthwhile recordings out there; perhaps I simply haven't looked deep enough).
@@Vincent_Xia I only know one other that’s of much interest, this ancient 1928 recording by William Murdoch: ruclips.net/video/MdVzOD82NL8/видео.htmlsi=z500EU95_W9nX_fV
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Back when a performance sounded like the actual performer! Just look at Gilels vs Moiseiwitsch here for example, both recordings so great yet so different, and you hear both of them in their own recordings respectively, their artistic nuances and overall styles. Today all pianists sound like the same slop. Make performances artistic again!
Great selection! Moiseiwitsch is the goat in this piece imo.
Fantastic work, thanks. I'm glad I found your channel 🙂
Appreciate it, yours is great too :D
Enormous! This sonata was strangely popular for pianists of that time haha :D Moiseiwitsch is always my favourite. Good job, i appreciate high effort.
@@fredericfrancoischopin6971 Moiseiwitsch’s is great, what a compelling personality he had!
Strangely? This sonata should be fairly one of the most popular even now!
@@teodorb.p.composer Yes, it should. But what is strange is that the other 12 sonatas (I am excluding the sonata reminiscenza) are not popular as this g minor sonata's popularity. I would expect sonatas like Night Wind, Romanza, Ballade to be more popular. These, let's face it, are more skillfully written works.
@@fredericfrancoischopin6971 I would agree with the fact that they are more skillfully written thatn reminiscenza, but this g minor sonata is so ingenious, it has almost the most wonderfull motivic work of them.
A good selection of performances by some of Medtner's most ardent proponents. Apparently fellow composer York Bowen had also performed this work, although he didn't seem to record it.
Side note: Bowen and Medtner are quite similar in some ways, particularly in how they clung to the Romantic idiom while other early-to-mid 20th century musical developments were occurring yet were harmonically innovative in their own rights. Many have likened Bowen to an "English Rachmaninov" but I think some of his pieces are comparable to Medtner too; one of the most Medtner-like pieces of Bowen in my opinion is the Prelude in C-sharp minor Op. 102 No. 4, which bears resemblance texturally and rhythmically to the more jagged sections of the Sonata Tragica or the "King Lear" Tale Op. 35 No. 4 (the latter of which it shares the same key with).
@@Vincent_Xia I‘ve been super interested in Bowen recently, especially the recordings he made of his own music! 20th century composer/pianists are pretty uncommon.
@@DreamBoatPianoArchive His own recordings are fantastic; I do intend on making score videos of at least some of them. I also would like to record some of his pieces (I've looked at a few of his preludes so far). So far the only interesting interpreter I've found of Bowen's piano music is Bowen himself (although I don't doubt there are other worthwhile recordings out there; perhaps I simply haven't looked deep enough).
@@Vincent_Xia I only know one other that’s of much interest, this ancient 1928 recording by William Murdoch:
ruclips.net/video/MdVzOD82NL8/видео.htmlsi=z500EU95_W9nX_fV
Wow I had no idea all these pianists played this... I thought it was only Gilels 😭
@@ConcordMass I did too for a long time, it’s sad that at least half of the really great Medtner recordings out there are so obscure…