Medtner / Rachmaninov - Piano Sonatas - Osborne, Steven (piano)

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This is a programme of two near-contemporary pianist-composers strongest repertoire that I'd be delighted to hear from Steven Osborne in concert. It's worth bearing in mind that while the great conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov's favourite work was Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, he thought the lesser-know Medtner's piano writing the most perfect. Individuality shines in the composer's 'Sonata Romantica', composed in 1930 in the Russian's Paris exile. It's infinitely less tumultuous, more clearly profiled and even more playful than Rachmaninov's specimen also in B flat minor, also a work of genius though Osborne gives us perhaps too much of the original, extended version rather than the telescoped revision in his composite performance. *** --Sinfini Music, 21/8/14