Nikolai Medtner - Piano Concerto No.2 (Op.50) 

This piano concerto is an absolute masterpiece, the artistic performance is exceptional, and it MUST be declared as a genuine privilege for us all, that Sihyeon Choe was kind enough to share it here on this platform! Having read all comments below, I just wished this concert were broadcast more frequently! On one hand, because it opens new horizons and as such constitutes a delightful enrichment to the world of music and arts; on the other hand, with frequent acoustic exposure to this work, even the lay audience would start to appreciate and remember the many beautiful harmonies and melodies of Medtner's 2nd piano concerto!

This is so smooth and sweet that it really embodies our most deepest emotions. My opinion hasn't changed one iota ever since I first fell for Medtner some 30 yrs and counting.

The conductor on this recording is not Paavo Jarvi , but his father Neeme Jarvi .

Well composed piece.

1:42 "Nimrod" from Elgar??

Check out yevgeny subdin’s recording, with the north carolina symphony. The orchestra sounds absolutely crisp. You can hear everything. Also hamelin with london phil is great

34:52

Salut Lucas :)

4:56

this is an absolute masterpiece and Tozer is magnificent

Someone just walked in and asked, "Wow, what are you listening to?"

I just keep listening to this over and over. Once it grows on it does so like a most tenacious vine

Medtner is one of my favorite most underrated composers. His character pieces for solo piano are extraordinarily difficult considering their innocuous titles, like the onion or the whip.

This concerto is blowing my mind! I just gotta start learning it! Thank you for the upload! :D

This track information - the "names" of the movements - is from another RU-vid performance of this (with Boris Berezovsky). Adapted to Sihyeon's offsets, however. 00:00 I. Toccatta (Allegro risoluto) 15:57 II. Romanza (Andante con moto) 24:49 III. Divertimento (Allegro risoluto e molto vivace) 36:13 (End)

Thank you for providing the music!

All of Medtner's piano concerto's are such sprawling and epic works.

Beautiful! Thanks for posting!

I love this concert. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful concerto!

the few chords harmonies melodies emotions tears heart and soul are encapsulated in a few notes varied here and there

Beautiful music.

What a powerful cadenza.

Thanks for sharing!

Medtner=next level harmonies

Que belleza!

Masterpiece

seduit a la premiere audition . Merci .

22:31 Au bord d'une source? :-)

best of his

Why is it...who can explain why one Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor (Rachmaninoff) becomes the most beloved, most often performed, most often recorded piano concerto in history while another Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor (Medtner), from all indications just as well constructed, falls by the wayside? A puzzlement.

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how can one make such Sheet-Audio-Videos ?

It's so unfortunate Demidenko's recording is not on RU-vid. You'll never hear the concerto so powerfully if you don't have it. After having fallen in love with it and listening to it dozens of times, it's hard for me to listen to Tozer's or even Hamelin's recording. Usually, I like many recordings of a piece, and I love many of Tozer's and Hamelin's Medtner performances. But this is my favourite piece of music, and it breaks my heart not to hear its beautiful nuances in the way Demidenko shows them. In the first movement, Tozer is downright sloppy on voicing, if you ask me. 0:43 to 0:53 no development in dynamics at all. Demidenko brings such a power and expressiveness to this music, just as it is written in the score. Of course this is a matter of taste, I'm not saying Tozer's playing is bad. I can understand if you prefer it, the champion of Medtner's music that he is. I think he does a good job in the 2nd and 3rd movement. In any case, the fact that so many people are captivated by this recording shows that this piece is something truly special.

que suave es la romanza

The most difficult piece of piano never wrote !

Le plus intéressant des 3 concertos pour piano de N.Medtner, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de devenir une des nombreuses "victimes" de Rachmaninov et de Prokofiev...

I woud also like to spend a few words on Mr. G. Tozer. In my opinion, as a prodigy of clarity and executive distinctiveness he at least is comparable to sir J. Ogdon. i cannot but remain dumbfounded as to why interpretations by ogdon`s in uk commonwealth are deemed in a considerably higher esteem than tozer`s. i fear this could find its roots in the different religious believes and confessions the two of them had been borne and with which each of them had been brought up, especially in countries with indisputably presbyterian and/or anglican official stances on religious matters. I wish I were to be proven wrong.

Adhermarcoyote, what is it that "The most difficult piece of piano never wrote"? Have you a piece of a piano that writes something and now you're sorry that this one never wrote anything? A bit of an exaggeration anyway ...

This concerto appeals to composers and music theorists more than to the general public. It lacks a memorable melody or theme to guide it along as it progresses, in contrast to the great Romantic piano concerti of Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.

and here madames and monsieurs we have the russian equivalent of brahms and schumann....... the only remorse is that he was so religiously devout and focused on piano only that he almost completely missed the symphonic means of expression. It also is undoubtful that so perfectionist as he was even the faintest symphony sketch would never have seen the birth on score from his hands, lest he had been worried he`d perceive that as unsuitable by his outstanding standards.

Medtner is the pianists' composer, and so his music suits those for whom pianism is more important than musicianship. Rachmaninoff, on the other hand, has everything, and is simply much better music.