Medtner - Piano Sonata in A minor, Op. 30 (1914)

Hamish Milne, piano EXPOSITION THEME GROUP 1, A MINOR 0:00 T1,1. An iambic rise and fall motive. 1:26 T1,2 THEME GROUP 2, E MINOR The second theme group contains four consecutive melodic fragments, developed individually throughout the sonata. 1:50 T2,1 2:06 T2,2 2:15 T2,3 2:32 T2,4 CLOSING SECTION 3:14 Extensive elaboration on T1,1 4:16 Repeated cadences in E minor, concluding the exposition DEVELOPMENT 4:41 Bare statements of T1,2 5:08 T2,1 5:44 T1,2 6:05 T2,2 6:17 T2,1 against T2,3. Tension begins to build 6:52 T1,1, with increased intervals, against T2,1 7:13 T2,3 against heavily modified T1,1 (increased intervals, compressed into triplets) 7:32 Violent outburst of T1,1 and T2,3 8:00 Quartal chords moving by tritone in the RH, T2,1 and T2,3 in the LH. Possibly the most violent, chaotic passage in all of Medtner. 8:23 fff pealing of D major. IV-I cadence to... RECAPITULATION THEME GROUP 1, A MAJOR 8:37 fff recap,