🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： Piano Sonata No.7 Night Wind in e-moll Op.25-2

Medtner’s “Night Wind” is a highly charged piano sonata in which urgent momentum alternates with richly shaded lyricism. Within its single movement, violent activity, songful passages, weighty chords, and delicate streams of sound appear in succession, creating a broad dramatic arc while maintaining strong contrasts. A central attraction lies in the way the character of each section changes and leads toward the final surge of intensity. In performance, the rapid passages should not be driven by momentum alone; inner voices and countermelodies need to be heard distinctly and shaped into a three-dimensional texture. Clear pedaling is essential, as is an interpretation that unites the power of the forte passages and the quiet tension into one long, continuous line.