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

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

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Seigneur ReefShark

Күн бұрын

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@SeigneurReefShark 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@PieInTheSky9 Жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@gabrieltelemaqueninin7626 19 күн бұрын

@@Whatismusic123 random. . .

@tchaffman Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

lucky

@stephanjwilliams Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 8 ай бұрын

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?"......

@central9823 8 ай бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

BRO THIS GOES SO HARDDD

@iianneill6013 Жыл бұрын

The performance of a lifetime ...

@globalc3849 5 ай бұрын

Amazing and unreal performance. This piece is a miracle.

@KenBreadbox Жыл бұрын

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.

@NothingFunnyAboutTheseCarpets Жыл бұрын

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

@teodorb.p.composer 3 ай бұрын

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

@markos3940 2 жыл бұрын

cant stop listening this masterpiece

@truekingvictory Жыл бұрын

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

@LukeZX4 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@sebastiantorres2542 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@golfer5990 Жыл бұрын

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

@archiesarna-howard460 6 ай бұрын

The second theme of the first movement is BEAUTFUL

@MegaCirse Жыл бұрын

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

@ilikeplayingffftonecluster851 3 жыл бұрын

... HOLY SHIT

@qalaphyll 2 жыл бұрын

yes

@ericastier1646 Ай бұрын

Your expletive is no exaggeration.

@r.i.p.volodya Жыл бұрын

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

@Alkanissimo 3 жыл бұрын

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

@steveegallo3384 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-rn7xv9xx6l Жыл бұрын

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

@Dylonely42 10 ай бұрын

Masterpiece of music.

@unnamed_boi 2 жыл бұрын

i can't get enough of 14:39 help

@zerois2801 2 жыл бұрын

mind blowing

@martinsz441 2 жыл бұрын

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

@teodorb.p.composer 5 ай бұрын

that's is problem of all of us

@AnAppleSlice 4 ай бұрын

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.

@archiesarna-howard460 9 ай бұрын

24:40 crazy but so cool and so modern

@Luca-yg5qx 3 жыл бұрын

Whoa this is so good

@aken215 Жыл бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@conman0414 3 жыл бұрын

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

@PSHEYACOOL 2 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏 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 2 жыл бұрын

not harder than the original version of the second one

@PSHEYACOOL 2 жыл бұрын

@@duqueadriano0081 I agree.

@ucj5421 9 ай бұрын

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

@Jamesphilipjfry 8 ай бұрын

@@duqueadriano0081 the 1st sonata is still harder

@gabriellewashere7353 11 ай бұрын

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

@Latinosmassacre- 7 ай бұрын

28:41

@central9823 7 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@rocamaxivojofahd333 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ericastier1646 Ай бұрын

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.

@earthwater9964 10 ай бұрын

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

@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner 25 күн бұрын

30:01 those harmonies

@markos3940 2 жыл бұрын

21:28

@GICM 2 жыл бұрын

7:18

@sama.4471 Жыл бұрын

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

@SeigneurReefShark Жыл бұрын

I believe the recording is made by K&K Verlagsanstalt

@severinvoneckardstein5900 Жыл бұрын

live from Duisburg Mercatorhalle, 2012

@Dylonely42 10 ай бұрын

29:00

@Dylonely42 10 ай бұрын

28:55

@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner 25 күн бұрын

I see you on Mahler videos

@markos3940 2 жыл бұрын

28:40

@thierryranger2230 Жыл бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@norixsynth 3 жыл бұрын

I wanna upload this but no midi sad

@lucaslorentz 3 жыл бұрын

Make one

@norixsynth 3 жыл бұрын

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

@XPKpianist 2 жыл бұрын

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

@GANIN-wn9dk Жыл бұрын

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

@conman0414 2 жыл бұрын

23:53 is there a missing measure here?

@lucaslorentz 3 жыл бұрын

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

@SeigneurReefShark 3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@lucaslorentz 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Alkadondon Жыл бұрын

14:39

@Alkadondon Жыл бұрын

20:48

@patriziavenucci1469 3 жыл бұрын

Non plus ultra

@SeigneurReefShark 3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@patriziavenucci1469 3 жыл бұрын

That it couldn't be played any better. The best of the best!!!

@frosti6669 11 ай бұрын

OMG

@connorrichardson368 5 ай бұрын

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

@FoziCoD Жыл бұрын

29:04-29:14 theses bass

@duqueadriano0081 10 ай бұрын

10:22

@ericastier1646 Ай бұрын

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.

@ConcordMass Жыл бұрын

3:32

@Latinosmassacre- 6 ай бұрын

30:03 the melody sounds like comes from the future

@DynastieArtistique 3 ай бұрын

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

@W0lfman0 6 ай бұрын

Medtner could go on for days if he wanted to.

@SeigneurReefShark 6 ай бұрын

And that would be awesome

@CziffraTheThird 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't this supposed to be called Winter Wind?

@SeigneurReefShark 2 жыл бұрын

What ??

@unnamed_boi 2 жыл бұрын

@alexs1504 2 жыл бұрын

No, it's way better

@GICM 2 жыл бұрын

no its supposed to be called epic wind

@joshvigranmusic 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Dichweed Ай бұрын

29:33 wrong

@Tuxster3 12 күн бұрын

The piece says a lot, yet says nothing. Unfortunately, at this point, I'm not a fan of this particular Medtner sonata. I will give it another listen to sometime in the near future.