🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： Piano Sonata No.5 in g-moll Op.22

Medtner’s Piano Sonata No. 5 condenses tense motion, singing melodies, and weighty harmony into a single movement. Its forcefully driven passages contrast with more reflective sections in which the flow relaxes, while the work as a whole unfolds through broad rises and falls. Among its highlights are the interweaving of several voices and the progression from moments of stillness toward dramatic climaxes. In performance, it is important to keep the inner voices from being obscured, clarify the role of each line, and preserve the momentum of the intricate rhythms. The pedal should support the resonance without creating heaviness, allowing the changes of character and the work’s large-scale structure to emerge with care.