Evgeny Svetlanov plays Medtner Sonata Reminiscenza (1/2)

[Quue7n]

>Svetlanov played EVERYTHING what written by Medtner, all piano works AND all songs.

His piano teacher was Medtner's pupil (Medtner was a piano professor in Moscow Cons. for several years)

[Barbapippo]

Wonderful piece... and what a pianist!

[brastoki]

Svetlanov, superb musician! The great Russian school of Conducting is both scientific and expressive. We could nominate the "father" Mravinsky and all the others: Kondrashin, Svetlanov, Rozdestvensky (my professor), Jansons, Temirkanov and ultimately, Gergiev. All magnificent artists.

[Perseus12345678]

@brastoki yes, awesome bunch!

[Perseus12345678]

what Gergiev videos would you recommend on youtube?

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

Thank God this "forgotten melody" was found ;)

is beautiful

[usersergey]

Спасибо Вам, Евгений Федорович, что Вы были на этой земле...

Да нет, спасибо, что Вы есть!!!

Я горд, что я русский благодаря Вам, Евгений Федорович!

[frintonearnshaw]

Yes, I agree - though unfortunately I don't think he got as far as recording the Reminiscenza. My suspicion was that Svetlanov simply either assumed a misprint or else followed his personal preference - but that doesn't diminish my respect for him. His recordings of the Violin Sonatas with Aleksandr Labko are very fine despite the poor sound - he is far superior to Goldenweiser, who was surprisingly weak in this repertoire (possibly old and unwell by then).

[frintonearnshaw]

Does anyone know why S alters the 2nd chord in bar 17?! (1st bar after introductory statement.) The 2nd left hand note is an A in every edition I know, and I have at least five. Svetlanov plays a G#, surely deliberately unless he had practised from memory and one or two tiny subconscious alterations had crept in over time? Interesting - to me, at least!

[nikolaimedtner]

editions are always full of mistakes, this should be a G sharp, Svetlanov is right. It sounds much better and "logical". I remember when i've learned this piece, the first thing my teacher did before we started to read the music, was changing that note into a G sharp.

[frintonearnshaw]

Thanks - but I have spent time in the Medtner archives in Moscow and Ottawa. Hamelin, who owns the definitive ms. (clearly showing an A in Medtner's hand) plays A; so do Demidenko, Milne, Tozer, Ginsberg, Gilels, Viardot... And if one followed your logic, why not maintain the parallelism in the bar following? Yes, I know - it would sound wrong... but the A Medtner visibly wrote in bar 17 does not . I'm a professional pianist/composer myself and know about misprints; this isn't one of them!

[huhas1]

Svetlanov played EVERYTHING what written by Medtner, all piano works AND all songs. He had very good voice (from his parents, both were singers at Bolshoj) and played and sang all incredible vocal works by Medtner, also 2 violin sonatas and quintet. (Recorded on "Russian Disc".

[nikolaimedtner]

Absolutely. And i regret that he made so few piano recordings...

[snaaptaker]

I had no idea that Svetlanov was also a pianist, and a superb one at that.

He has long been one of my favorite conductors. Fifty years ago, his recording of the Rachmaninoff Symphony #2 left me in tears.and I've never forgotten that.

He was more than a musician. He was THE MUSIC, itself.

[xAmandine]

thanks for posting, Mark! I recognize his sound from Ophelia's song that I loved too