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Eckardstein’s performance of Night Wind tops any other Medtner recording in my opinion, with the exception of Medtner’s own recordings of his works

Fantastic. At first, I thought that the video was playing at 1.25× speed... it wasn’t. The recordings by Debargue, Sudbin, and Eckardstein were completely new.

The ending of the sonata ballade is unequivocally one of the greatest moments in the piano repertoire. Astounding. Ending of his 2nd concerto is great too

I agree that he wasn’t the as much a melodist as rach in the sense that his focus was not on organic beautiful melodies that kind of stand on their own as the themes of the pieces, but rather on little intervalic motives that he could develop and intertwine to create all themes from the same motivoc pool. Much like brahms. I think these melodies become even more compelling than rach’s on the long run, when you realize all the connections between the melodic material of the work as a whole.

Lmao the D major triad that just spawns in the middle of that highly dissonant passage hit me like a truck (2:58)

このまとめを待ってた！

ginastera's hardest piece is not his first piano concerto but his second.

Dina Parakhina and Poom Prommachart has the best Op.25 no.2

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Top 10 hardest Bartok Pieces next?

So glad you included the Medtner concerti! They are probably some of the best works ever composed in the genre, and they're all so good that my favorite changes from day to day. Something notable I wish you could have mentioned was the reprise of the first D major theme in the first concerto, where the piano and orchestra play the theme together in a magnificent 4 (or even 5?) voice stretto.

Surely Messiaen next ;) then we'll have done my three favourite composers

oh my god i've been wanting to get into medtner for so long, thank you so much for giving me something to chew on, that night wind ending is so hauntingly gorgeous!!!!!

I'm in my Medtner era and you coincidentally posted this! He really excelled in his sonatas, absolute masterpieces. His Sonata Romantica is stuck in my head for days!

My goat has come back to post my favorite Medtner

20:18 Étude 10, Richter achieves razor-sharp precision (Pollini's 1970s recording is not dry enough IMO). probably the most astonishing moment in this compilation

I love the sonata-ballade mainly for the absolute beauty that is its second subject (6:08). And what's pretty neat about it is that starting from the D#, the leap down and then climb back up to D# is actually the same motif as used in the RH of the coda (6:57).

Medtnerr yay

havent listened to much medtner outside his sonatas and wow the excerpts you chose from his first piano concerto swept me off my feet. I am hooked

Variations op.2 I believe is perhaps Chopin's hardest piece. Also some etudes are way harder than ballades. Op. 10 n. 1, n. 2, n. 10... they are hell, without a single break

bach 10 hardest pieces list?

babe wake up, caleb hu's medtner ranking just dropped

Tozer’s Medtner concertos are so good. The second movement of the second concerto is absolutely silky smooth and tugs hard at the heartstrings. It ebbs and flows in such a pretty way.

Nice video! Out of curiosity how would you rank the Op. 47 compared to these? Edit: jayachamarajendra why didnt you get him to record the night wind :’(

Excellent compilation, Medtner is in my TOP THREE composers of all time alongside Chopin and Alkan - his works have given me so much joy over the 2 decades I've known them and they continue to reveal hidden depths. Truly a composer worth the time it takes to become acquainted with - his musical world is unique and magical. In the end - comparisons to other composers are facile and pointless - Medtner is unique!

Medtner ❤

New video from the goat

What would you rate the sonata reminiscences in terms of difficulty?

Also on a side note, Irina Mejoueva´s Night Wind is absolutely stunning in my opinion, it´s a shame she seems to be largely unknown

m*dtner 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢 (but in all seriousness tho, i really enjoyed this video! keep up the good work! :D)

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Medtner is quite new to me, could anyone name a few of his greatest works?

Peak is upon us

Nice list!

WE LOVE MEDTNER

You missed the great opportunity to cast the magnificent coda from the 3rd piano concerto

just waiting for the whatismusic hate comments frfr

Great video and sleection. I kept seeing your timestamps on his music recently, so I knew it was coming.

yippee

WIG SNATCHED.

OMGgg I love this series!!!!!!!

yes!

Yay Medtner

What is your favorite work by Nikolai Medtner?

OMG it is finally here, a video of my favorite composer!

The song at 1:30 sounds like it's from an NES castlevania game.

YES!! I guess the Bartok correctly!! :) This is the most fun I’ve had on KZfaq in years.

First, let me say bravo and thank you for this marvelous compendium. Second…I have to take issue with the Debussy entry. :) I think either prelude book contains passages that surpass that etude in difficulty. The pedaling alone…