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schubertiads:

Vergessene Weisen ‘Forgotten Melodies’ (Second Cycle), Op 39; IV. Canzona matinata: Allegretto cantando, ma sempre con moto

Nikolai Medtner, composer

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

The first piece from the second cycle of Medtner’s Forgotten Melodies can be found here: I. Meditazione: Introduzione, quasi Cadenza – Meno mosso – Meditamente; the second is here: II. Romanza: Meditamente; the third is here: III. Primavera: vivace

schubertiads:

Vergessene Weisen ‘Forgotten Melodies’ (Second Cycle), Op 39; I. Meditazione: Introduzione, quasi Cadenza – Meno mosso – Meditamente

Nikolai Medtner, composer

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

As anyone who has followed me on Tumblr for at least the last couple of months would know, I have an obsession with Nikolai Medtner. I’ve previously posted various pieces from his Forgotten Melodies, from all three cycles. I’ve decided that over the period of a few days I’m going to post each (5) from the second cycle as performed by Marc-André Hamelin. Whether or not those days are consecutive, we shall see. I have previously posted the 5th (Sonata Tragica) so some of you will have already heard it (if you were so willing and interested as to click “play”). I will beat Medtner into your heads if I have to.

musicophilia:

Vergessene Weisen ‘Forgotten Melodies’, Op 39; V. Sonata Tragica in C minor (Allegro risoluto)

Nikolai Medtner

Geoffrey Tozer, piano

musicophilia:

Forgotten Melodies III, Op.40; I. Danza col canto (Tanets s peniem) 

Nikolai Medtner

Geoffrey Tozer, piano

musicophilia:

Piano Sonata No. 12 in B-flat minor “Romantica”, Op.53 No.1 - II. Scherzo - Allegro

Nikolai Medtner

Geoffrey Tozer, piano

I’d also like to share this scherzo with you.

The Twelfth Sonata, entitled “Romantica” in B-flat minor, Op. 53, No. 1, was written some years later, along with its twin. It was premièred in Glasgow in 1931, having been completed at the end of the previous year. Returning to a four-movement form, it consists of a Romance (B-flat minor), Scherzo (E-flat minor), Meditazione (B minor,) and Finale (B-flat minor). The ending quotes his Sonata-Skazka, Op. 25, No. 1. (via)

There’s no pause between the the first and second movements, hence its hit the ground running start.

musicophilia:

Piano Sonata in F minor, Op.5 - III. Largo divoto

Nikolai Medtner

Geoffrey Tozer, piano

The First Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5, is a four-movement work from 1902–3 suggesting the style of Scriabin or Rachmaninoff, but nonetheless original. Medtner’s craft gained subtlety and complexity in later years, but this work is already evidence of his mastery of musical structure. An opening Allegro, dramatic and imbued like much Russian music with a bell-like sonority, is separated by a rhythmic and forceful Intermezzo from a Largo divoto which reaches a Maestoso climax before plunging into the headlong Allegro risoluto finale. (via)

musicophilia:

Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. posth; II. Andantino con moto

Nikolai Medtner

Ewald Danel, Milan Tedla, violins
Zuzana Bourova, viola
Josef Podhoransky, cello
Konstantin Scherbakov, piano

You can listen to the first movement of this piano quintet here.