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Medtner - Sonata Op. 25 No. 2 "Night Wind" (Eckardstein)

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  • Опубликовано: 12 авг 2024
  • This performance was for me a revelation. As much as i love other performances of this work, especially Milne and Ponochevny, i think that this one is superior in many ways. First of all : the incredible atmoshpere. Eckardstein can both play extremely violently (not "bangy" though) or so very softly and suddenly go for a total contrast in nuance, while doing the transition very well. Medtner intended this piece to be "always played in an epic spirit". Well here I never listened to such an epic performance. He has a way of playing this sonata, that at the first measures already you know how great its going to be. He mixes the dark, eerie and menacing and solemn side of Tozer with the vigor and energy of Kholodenko and the subtlety of Milne, while keeping the flow of the piece the whole time, while never showing a single mark of tiring. And this result in an impetuous, unbashed, unstoppable wind, a true Night Wind.
    00:00 - I. Introduzione: Andante con moto
    02:37 - II. Allegro
    15:33 - III. Tempo dell'introduzione
    18:20 - IV. Allegro molto sfrenatamente, presto
    26:32 - V. Quasi cadenza
    Pianist : Severin Von Eckardstein

Комментарии • 122

  • @SeigneurReefShark
    @SeigneurReefShark  3 года назад +24

    00:00​ - I. Introduzione: Andante con moto
    02:37​ - II. Allegro
    15:33​ - III. Tempo dell'introduzione
    18:20​ - IV. Allegro molto sfrenatamente, presto
    26:32​ - V. Quasi cadenza
    This performance was for me a revelation. As much as i love other performances of this work, especially Milne and Ponochevny, i think that this one is superior in many ways. First of all : the incredible atmoshpere. Eckardstein can both play extremely violently (not "bangy" though) or so very softly and suddenly go for a total contrast in nuance, while doing the transition very well. Medtner intended this piece to be "always played in an epic spirit". Well here I never listened to such an epic performance. He has a way of playing this sonata, that at the first measures already you know how great its going to be. He mixes the dark, eerie and menacing and solemn side of Tozer with the vigor and energy of Kholodenko and the subtlety of Milne, while keeping the flow of the piece the whole time, while never showing a single mark of tiring. And this result in an impetuous, unbashed, unstoppable wind, a true Night Wind.

    • @rocamaxivojofahd333
      @rocamaxivojofahd333 3 года назад +1

      I agree that the performance is good but I find the piano tone very harsh. Could be the lousy U-tube bitrate of 128kbps which is scarcely more than speech quality.

  • @central9823
    @central9823 7 месяцев назад +13

    13:55
    この世で最も完成された芸術作品の一つ
    この曲に出会えたというだけで生まれてきた甲斐があったと思える。

  • @supasayajinsongoku4464
    @supasayajinsongoku4464 Год назад +19

    BRO THIS GOES SO HARDDD

  • @tchaffman
    @tchaffman Год назад +47

    I'm at Juilliard for piano. Someone was practicing this next door to me tonight and that part around 29:03 was one of the most wicked, grotesque, and insane things I've ever heard coming through those walls lol

    • @ConcordMass
      @ConcordMass Год назад +2

      lucky

    • @stephanjwilliams
      @stephanjwilliams Год назад +11

      It's good to know that Medtner is becoming more popular. I just hope that that student continues to learn Medtner's music, and promotes it in his/her career as a musician.

    • @tchaffman
      @tchaffman Год назад +13

      ​​​​​​​​​@@stephanjwilliams Well they certainly had an impact on me, I'm learning Medtner's Concerto No. 2 now. I can think of a few friends who have played his music while I've been here, both little encores up to the sonatas and concertos... seems like an unlikely combo but I wouldn't put it past Gen-Z piano virtuosos to bring Medtner back lol

    • @stephanjwilliams
      @stephanjwilliams Год назад +3

      @@tchaffman That's amazing! The second concerto is essentially a perfect Romantic piano concerto. The Concerto-Ballad is my favorite, though, because of the sublime heights it reaches through its contemplative atmosphere. I'm not even a music student, but I'm considering pursuing piano after getting my degree in philosophy. Medtner's Night Wind and Beethoven's Op. 109 sonatas are my dream pieces for a potential senior recital. Good luck with the second concerto!

    • @christopherczajasager9030
      @christopherczajasager9030 8 месяцев назад +2

      Have you ever heard opus 11 nr.3 of Schoenberg ? I played it when studying at Juilliard many years ago. I was naive to play it for my teacher Rosina Lhévinne who asked..." Why did you bring this piece of hatred and ugliness?"......

  • @archiesarna-howard460
    @archiesarna-howard460 6 месяцев назад +4

    The second theme of the first movement is BEAUTFUL

  • @PieInTheSky9
    @PieInTheSky9 Год назад +49

    Hard to believe someone wrote this really. The counterpoint and textual sophistication is rather stunning. The playing is remarkable, properly tempestuous without blurring the harmonies with careful attention towards bringing out the melody & countermelodies (which can easily be lost in the sea of notes).

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 2 месяца назад

      He just throws random chords and rhythmns around. Not even his melodies have any form of structure... pathetic.

    • @gabrieltelemaqueninin7626
      @gabrieltelemaqueninin7626 4 дня назад

      @@Whatismusic123 random. . .

  • @iianneill6013
    @iianneill6013 Год назад +7

    The performance of a lifetime ...

  • @archiesarna-howard460
    @archiesarna-howard460 9 месяцев назад +5

    24:40 crazy but so cool and so modern

  • @user-rn7xv9xx6l
    @user-rn7xv9xx6l Год назад +9

    Similar to Marcel Proust "In search of lost time" - Difficult to approach, but you will see another great world once you get into it.

  • @globalc3849
    @globalc3849 4 месяца назад +5

    Amazing and unreal performance. This piece is a miracle.

  • @KenBreadbox
    @KenBreadbox 11 месяцев назад +8

    Reminiscenza will always be my favourite for sheer melody, but this is stunning, and by far the best performance I have heard. Eckardstein decrypts Medtner so well.

  • @markos3940
    @markos3940 2 года назад +10

    cant stop listening this masterpiece

  • @teodorb.p.composer
    @teodorb.p.composer 2 месяца назад +3

    I am speechless, this is just too superb and astonishing!

  • @ilikeplayingffftonecluster851
    @ilikeplayingffftonecluster851 3 года назад +21

    ...
    HOLY SHIT

  • @NothingFunnyAboutTheseCarpets
    @NothingFunnyAboutTheseCarpets Год назад +8

    AMAZING PERFORMANCE! Never heard of this incredible pianist before! So intelligent and thoughtful. He understands what he’s playing and it shows

  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 10 месяцев назад +3

    Masterpiece of music.

  • @truekingvictory
    @truekingvictory Год назад +10

    How have I not heard of Eckardstein until now?? That was a performance of a lifetime! Thanks for posting, ReefShark.

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 17 дней назад

    Wow there is so much going on, that after four listening i am starting to hear how the first movement sounds like two beautiful piano at the same time.

  • @golfer5990
    @golfer5990 Год назад +6

    Great sonata. Medtner is one of my favorite composers. The Sonata Triad is probably my favorite but I like them all.

  • @LukeZX4
    @LukeZX4 3 года назад +14

    YES! Thank you so much for uploading this. Eckardstein's approach is insurmountably epic and violent (with all the beautiful moments gorgeously shining through), incredibly voiced, sharply articulated, and altogether incredibly constructed. This sonata was never comprehensible to me until I came across this version. The truly definitive recording.

  • @unnamed_boi
    @unnamed_boi 2 года назад +22

    i can't get enough of 14:39 help

    • @zerois2801
      @zerois2801 2 года назад +3

      mind blowing

    • @martinsz441
      @martinsz441 2 года назад +5

      Yes and all following up to 15:30 is just unbelievable. So good.

    • @teodorb.p.composer
      @teodorb.p.composer 4 месяца назад

      that's is problem of all of us

    • @AnAppleSlice
      @AnAppleSlice 3 месяца назад +1

      And the _Molto giocondamente_ part that follows is so giddying, but all of the ecstasy then suddenly comes crashing down by the abrupt shift to F minor, where the opening motif soon reappears and anticipates the recap of the introductory theme.

  • @conman0414
    @conman0414 3 года назад +11

    4:54 - the G on the third beat of this motif has such an ethereal quality to it. This is such a beautiful chord voicing

  • @sebastiantorres2542
    @sebastiantorres2542 2 года назад +12

    I just started listening and loving it. Some of the voice shading here is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing obscure but yet amazing recordings such as this one, discovering new approaches to these pieces is what keeps music exciting.

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse Год назад +2

    Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of tormented watchmen

  • @KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner
    @KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner 9 дней назад

    30:01 those harmonies

  • @Alkanissimo
    @Alkanissimo 3 года назад +25

    I agree. Eckardstein is a true Medtner champion, by far my favourite night wind!

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Год назад +3

      @@themobiusfunction -- A Colossus! Cheers from Acapulco!

  • @r.i.p.volodya
    @r.i.p.volodya Год назад +5

    I enjoyed this performance very much - so much interesting content.

  • @Luca-yg5qx
    @Luca-yg5qx 3 года назад +8

    Whoa this is so good

  • @PSHEYACOOL
    @PSHEYACOOL 2 года назад +14

    👏👏👏
    Monster Sonata! In the sense that not every virtuoso will dare to play it! Huge, through polyphonic, full of rhythmic tricks, and even very virtuoso! I think that it is even more difficult than Rachmaninov's sonatas.

    • @duqueadriano0081
      @duqueadriano0081 2 года назад +2

      not harder than the original version of the second one

    • @PSHEYACOOL
      @PSHEYACOOL 2 года назад

      @@duqueadriano0081 I agree.

    • @ucj5421
      @ucj5421 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@duqueadriano0081どっちも弾いたけどNight Windの方がはるかに難しいよ

    • @Jamesphilipjfry
      @Jamesphilipjfry 8 месяцев назад

      @@duqueadriano0081 the 1st sonata is still harder

  • @aken215
    @aken215 Год назад +5

    I agree with you, it's probably the best performance of this sonata. I finally understand this piece much more.
    Also, I love how he creates a counterpoint at 1:11, as a sort of an response to the preceding melody.

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 17 дней назад

      I am lucky that this is the first performance of this piece i hear then.

  • @central9823
    @central9823 6 месяцев назад +8

    Like Pollini’s Chopin etudes, one can asymptotically approach this performance,but never outperform this by definition, because this is the definition of perfect.

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 17 дней назад

      Not true. One shall never take another as strict model, or for sure one will never surpass it. Oh and there is no such thing as perfection, musical art is multi-decisional. You are back to square one about musical art.

  • @earthwater9964
    @earthwater9964 10 месяцев назад +1

    ...just nuts... crazy... most unusual I've ever heard... wow

  • @markos3940
    @markos3940 2 года назад +8

    21:28

  • @gabriellewashere7353
    @gabriellewashere7353 10 месяцев назад +5

    3:49 6:37 11:24 13:55 19:54 24:29 30:42

  • @rocamaxivojofahd333
    @rocamaxivojofahd333 3 года назад +55

    If you want to experience the true night wind, then have a late dinner consisting of sauerkraut, frankfurters, maybe a pickled egg, and a couple of Pilsener Urquell beers.

  • @GICM
    @GICM 2 года назад +6

    7:18

  • @markos3940
    @markos3940 2 года назад +5

    28:40

  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 10 месяцев назад +5

    29:00

  • @patriziavenucci1469
    @patriziavenucci1469 3 года назад +8

    Non plus ultra

  • @frosti6669
    @frosti6669 10 месяцев назад

    OMG

  • @Alkadondon
    @Alkadondon Год назад +4

    14:39

  • @sama.4471
    @sama.4471 Год назад +3

    Is this the MD&G studio recording? I find myself always completely floored by Eckardstein's Medtner, he just knows exactly how to pull off these difficult pieces for maximum effect - his live Sonata Ballade and Op. 30 as well

  • @thierryranger2230
    @thierryranger2230 Год назад +2

    Wow!! That was incredible, amazing playing. What do you think of Hamelin's version? Also Vos has pretty interesting moments and choices he makes also. They've all got a little something special or different to say which is what's so great about interpretation of a piece :)

    • @pianista-mediocre
      @pianista-mediocre Месяц назад

      Hamelin has the second best version. The one in this video is the best

  • @FoziCoD
    @FoziCoD Год назад +1

    29:04-29:14 theses bass

  • @conman0414
    @conman0414 2 года назад +2

    23:53 is there a missing measure here?

  • @lucaslorentz
    @lucaslorentz 3 года назад +9

    After eckardstein played it no one learned night wind ...

    • @SeigneurReefShark
      @SeigneurReefShark  3 года назад +1

      What do you mean?

    • @lucaslorentz
      @lucaslorentz 3 года назад +13

      @@SeigneurReefShark cuz the interpretation is so perfect that nobody would try to overcome it

  • @connorrichardson368
    @connorrichardson368 4 месяца назад +1

    section at 25:10 is way too good...

  • @norixsynth
    @norixsynth 3 года назад +9

    I wanna upload this but no midi
    sad

    • @lucaslorentz
      @lucaslorentz 3 года назад +6

      Make one

    • @norixsynth
      @norixsynth 3 года назад +1

      @@lucaslorentz how sad that I can't make midis at all like Liszthesis themselves :(

    • @XPKpianist
      @XPKpianist 2 года назад +1

      Learn to play the piano, practice 10 hours a day for 10 years and you can record it.

    • @GANIN-wn9dk
      @GANIN-wn9dk 11 месяцев назад +1

      I know this is 2 year late but someone did it, some guy uploaded a snyhtesia vid of night wind!!

  • @Dichweed
    @Dichweed 26 дней назад +1

    29:33 wrong

  • @Latinosmassacre-
    @Latinosmassacre- 5 месяцев назад

    30:03 the melody sounds like comes from the future

    • @DynastieArtistique
      @DynastieArtistique 2 месяца назад

      Yes it’s so otherworldly, every time I hear this section I think just that

  • @duqueadriano0081
    @duqueadriano0081 10 месяцев назад +1

    10:22

  • @ConcordMass
    @ConcordMass Год назад

    3:32

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 17 дней назад

    This places higher than many of Rachmnaninov compositions and for sure on equal footing.
    I am surprised there is so little interest in Medtner given how much reverence R. gets.

  • @W0lfman0
    @W0lfman0 5 месяцев назад

    Medtner could go on for days if he wanted to.

  • @CziffraTheThird
    @CziffraTheThird 2 года назад

    Isn't this supposed to be called Winter Wind?

    • @SeigneurReefShark
      @SeigneurReefShark  2 года назад +9

      What ??

    • @unnamed_boi
      @unnamed_boi 2 года назад +5

      no

    • @alexs1504
      @alexs1504 2 года назад +3

      No, it's way better

    • @GICM
      @GICM 2 года назад +7

      no its supposed to be called epic wind

    • @joshvigranmusic
      @joshvigranmusic 2 года назад +6

      No the Winter Wind is Chopin's etude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 11

  • @Whatismusic123
    @Whatismusic123 2 месяца назад +1

    Random sludge of notes.

    • @DynastieArtistique
      @DynastieArtistique 2 месяца назад +10

      What you meant to say was “what a bunch of notes my underdeveloped musical mind can’t understand”

    • @lucasdanconia
      @lucasdanconia Месяц назад +4

      @@DynastieArtistiquewhat mind?

    • @DynastieArtistique
      @DynastieArtistique Месяц назад +2

      @@lucasdanconia hahahahaha

  • @Xyriak
    @Xyriak 6 месяцев назад +4

    15:02

    • @Xyriak
      @Xyriak 6 месяцев назад

      28:44

    • @Xyriak
      @Xyriak 6 месяцев назад

      4:42

    • @Xyriak
      @Xyriak 6 месяцев назад

      11:31

    • @Xyriak
      @Xyriak Месяц назад

      24:39

    • @Xyriak
      @Xyriak Месяц назад

      24:40

  • @mcig98
    @mcig98 3 года назад +10

    25:15

  • @FoziCoD
    @FoziCoD Год назад +2

    28:54

  • @markos3940
    @markos3940 2 года назад +5

    29:34

    • @frosti6669
      @frosti6669 10 месяцев назад

      Sorry, too late :(

  • @calebhu6383
    @calebhu6383 2 месяца назад

    28:44