Ariel Lanyi plays Medtner Sonata Idyll

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