Medtner - Sonata Tragica Op. 39 No. 5 (Tozer, Sudbin)

Here is it. The storm. An emotional tempest. An unstoppable flow of emotions, dramatic, tragic, intense, full of despair, that gets at point romantic and even nostalgic, going through threatening and stormy feelings, and pure beautiful joy. That is, for me, the best sonata and piece ever composed for the piano. Medtner insisted on this piece to be always preceeded by the Canzona Matinata Op. 39 No. 4. Tozer : 00:05 Tozer (2) : 09:32 Subdin : 19:10 Structure : EXPOSITION 00:05 : First theme, tragic and violent. 01:16 : Transition 01:28 : Second theme, romantic and nostalgic, pratically the same as the first, but in major. 02:20 : Third theme, nostalgic and sad, taken note to note from the preceding Op. 39 No. 4 “Canzona Matinata“ 03:03 : Second theme again, first doubting, then getting dreamy (03:40) , then getting more and more ecstatic (03:44) , until an explosion of joy (04:17) DEVELOPPEMENT 04:47-06:30 Menacing first, it gets more stormy and more th