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.
@rocamaxivojofahd3333 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.
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).
@Whatismusic1232 ай бұрын
He just throws random chords and rhythmns around. Not even his melodies have any form of structure... pathetic.
@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!
@christopherczajasager90308 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?"......
@archiesarna-howard4606 ай бұрын
The second theme of the first movement is BEAUTFUL
@supasayajinsongoku4464 Жыл бұрын
BRO THIS GOES SO HARDDD
@iianneill6013 Жыл бұрын
The performance of a lifetime ...
@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.
@KenBreadbox11 ай 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.
@globalc38494 ай бұрын
Amazing and unreal performance. This piece is a miracle.
@teodorb.p.composer2 ай бұрын
I am speechless, this is just too superb and astonishing!
@truekingvictory Жыл бұрын
How have I not heard of Eckardstein until now?? That was a performance of a lifetime! Thanks for posting, ReefShark.
@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
@ericastier164610 күн 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.
@golfer5990 Жыл бұрын
Great sonata. Medtner is one of my favorite composers. The Sonata Triad is probably my favorite but I like them all.
@markos39402 жыл бұрын
cant stop listening this masterpiece
@LukeZX43 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.
@ilikeplayingffftonecluster8513 жыл бұрын
... HOLY SHIT
@qalaphyll2 жыл бұрын
yes
@ericastier164610 күн бұрын
Your expletive is no exaggeration.
@sebastiantorres25422 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.
@unnamed_boi2 жыл бұрын
i can't get enough of 14:39 help
@zerois28012 жыл бұрын
mind blowing
@martinsz4412 жыл бұрын
Yes and all following up to 15:30 is just unbelievable. So good.
@teodorb.p.composer4 ай бұрын
that's is problem of all of us
@AnAppleSlice3 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.
@r.i.p.volodya Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this performance very much - so much interesting content.
@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
@archiesarna-howard4608 ай бұрын
24:40 crazy but so cool and so modern
@Dylonely4210 ай бұрын
Masterpiece of music.
@conman04143 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
@PSHEYACOOL2 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.
@duqueadriano00812 жыл бұрын
not harder than the original version of the second one
@PSHEYACOOL2 жыл бұрын
@@duqueadriano0081 I agree.
@ucj54218 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
@Jamesphilipjfry8 ай бұрын
@@duqueadriano0081 the 1st sonata is still harder
@Alkanissimo3 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!
@Luca-yg5qx3 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.
@ericastier164610 күн бұрын
I am lucky that this is the first performance of this piece i hear then.
@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner2 күн бұрын
30:01 those harmonies
@central98236 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.
@ericastier164610 күн 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.
@gabriellewashere735310 ай бұрын
3:49 6:37 11:24 13:55 19:54 24:29 30:42
@Latinosmassacre-6 ай бұрын
28:41
@earthwater996410 ай бұрын
...just nuts... crazy... most unusual I've ever heard... wow
@markos39402 жыл бұрын
21:28
@rocamaxivojofahd3333 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.
@conman04142 жыл бұрын
23:53 is there a missing measure here?
@GICM2 жыл бұрын
7:18
@markos39402 жыл бұрын
28:40
@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
@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-mediocreАй бұрын
Hamelin has the second best version. The one in this video is the best
@frosti666910 ай бұрын
OMG
@norixsynth3 жыл бұрын
I wanna upload this but no midi sad
@lucaslorentz3 жыл бұрын
Make one
@norixsynth3 жыл бұрын
@@lucaslorentz how sad that I can't make midis at all like Liszthesis themselves :(
@XPKpianist2 жыл бұрын
Learn to play the piano, practice 10 hours a day for 10 years and you can record it.
@GANIN-wn9dk11 ай бұрын
I know this is 2 year late but someone did it, some guy uploaded a snyhtesia vid of night wind!!
@Dylonely4210 ай бұрын
29:00
@Dylonely4210 ай бұрын
28:55
@KaikhosruShapurjiMedtner2 күн бұрын
I see you on Mahler videos
@Alkadondon Жыл бұрын
14:39
@Alkadondon Жыл бұрын
20:48
@patriziavenucci14693 жыл бұрын
Non plus ultra
@SeigneurReefShark3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean?
@patriziavenucci14693 жыл бұрын
That it couldn't be played any better. The best of the best!!!
@lucaslorentz3 жыл бұрын
After eckardstein played it no one learned night wind ...
@SeigneurReefShark3 жыл бұрын
What do you mean?
@lucaslorentz3 жыл бұрын
@@SeigneurReefShark cuz the interpretation is so perfect that nobody would try to overcome it
@FoziCoD Жыл бұрын
29:04-29:14 theses bass
@connorrichardson3684 ай бұрын
section at 25:10 is way too good...
@Dichweed19 күн бұрын
29:33 wrong
@duqueadriano00819 ай бұрын
10:22
@ConcordMass Жыл бұрын
3:32
@Latinosmassacre-5 ай бұрын
30:03 the melody sounds like comes from the future
@DynastieArtistique2 ай бұрын
Yes it’s so otherworldly, every time I hear this section I think just that
@W0lfman05 ай бұрын
Medtner could go on for days if he wanted to.
@SeigneurReefShark5 ай бұрын
And that would be awesome
@ericastier164610 күн 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.
@CziffraTheThird2 жыл бұрын
Isn't this supposed to be called Winter Wind?
@SeigneurReefShark2 жыл бұрын
What ??
@unnamed_boi2 жыл бұрын
no
@alexs15042 жыл бұрын
No, it's way better
@GICM2 жыл бұрын
no its supposed to be called epic wind
@joshvigranmusic2 жыл бұрын
No the Winter Wind is Chopin's etude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 11
@Whatismusic1232 ай бұрын
Random sludge of notes.
@DynastieArtistique2 ай бұрын
What you meant to say was “what a bunch of notes my underdeveloped musical mind can’t understand”