Ariel Lanyi plays Medtner Sonata-Idyll

Medtner, Sonata-Idyll in G major, Op. 56 The Sonata-Idyll, in G major, is Medtner’s last piano sonata, completed in London, in 1937 (contemporaneous with Bartok’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion). Its atmosphere is calm, elegant, and reflective—unlike most other Medtner sonatas, which are virtuosic, complex, and tumultuous. Medtner’s compositional personality does come through, however, in the stylistic diversity that is common to all his sonatas. The first movement,