Paul Stewart - Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 (2022) [Hi-Res]

Medtner’s fourteen Piano Sonatas, the most significant achievement in this genre by any major composer since Beethoven, span his career. The Sonata-Ballade explores a tempestuous musical allegory – the triumph of light over darkness, of faith over doubt; while the Sonata in A minor is cast in a single, terse movement, with folkloric elements and frequent use of bell-like features that exude Russianness.

By contrast, the "Night Wind" Sonata is a monumental epic of exceptional complexity that stunned Rachmaninov and led composer and critic Sorabji to call it "the greatest piano sonata of modern times".