Video: Medtner - Canzona serenata Op. 38 No.6

[glinka0315]

Here is another son's piano recording for a competition (preliminary round). Would love to hear your feedback, too. Thank you!!

[kalospiano]

This is beautiful, but is Medtner copying himself here?
The intro sounds very similar to the beginning of his sonata reminiscenza.

[mjames]

Forgotten melodies op. 38 and op 39 are written in cyclical form. The idea is he creates individual pieces based on motifs from his sonata, and in op. 39 he composes a sonata based on ideas from individual pieces.

[kalospiano]

I see, thanks for the clarification, mjames