Medtner - Romanza, op 39/2 (Tozer)

The second piece of Medtner's Op. 39 Forgotten Melodies II (Vergesse Weisen). This Romanza in F minor takes up the theme of the preceding Meditazione ( • Medtner - Meditazione,... ), which is even marked "Meditamente" in the beginning of the score.
The piece begins with the melody on the fifth, hanging in the air. The very first intervall is a falling semitone (c-b), which the piece will obsess over during its course. We hear it emphasized in the top notes after 00:10, when the rising three-note motif repeats itself aimlessly with increasing speed, and then simultaneously in the bass (00:15), or at 00:29 - its practilcally in every measure. It is as if the music is lost in confusion, only holding onto this semitone motif.
Medtner also employs deminution very prominently in this piece, e.g. in the above mentioned passage at 00:10 or at 01:13 - where the ghostly cry is just the preceding theme with shorter note values.
The desolate meditative section is interrupted by a timidly buoyant waltz marked "tranquillo" and "dolce" (01:34). However, the first theme soon takes over again in an agitated form (02:33). Later, modified version of the two contrasting themes interact (03:23/ 03:27), which creates tension that grows into a troubled coda, where Medtner writes "con strepito", meaning "with tumult/noise" (03:55). At the end, the music seems lost and confused, again aimlessly repeating the semitone motif (04:04), after which the piece ends in wispy flurries.
Full Op. 39 Playlist: • Medtner - Meditazione,...

[@thirtythreepi]

Reminds me of late Liszt at times

[@paperyppogaming]

Don't you dare compare Medtner with someone who kept copying other people's works

[@thomasbarnich2004]

Someone here belongs in the asylum😂​@@paperyppogaming