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Alexei Stanchinsky ‒ Piano Sonata No2
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Alexei Stanchinsky (1888 - 1914), Piano Sonata No.2 in G Major (1911 - 1912) • Performed by Daniel Blumenthal • 00:00 - No. 1 Fuga - Lento espressivo • 06:13 - No. 2 Presto • Stanchinsky conceived most of his music either before (1906 - 09) or after (1912 - 14) the period of his confinement. Contemporary with Scriabin's Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Sonatas and Vers la flamme, Rachmaninov's Bells and Second Sonata, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Prokofiev's first two piano concertos, a handful of aphorisms comprise the later ones. An experience without precedent at once personal and inquiring - epic, nervy, voluptuous, abrasive, bleak, visionary, sombre, cynical... veiled by memories of Mussorgsky, of Scriabin, of the virtuoso Romantics of the European stage... a compound of retrospective vocabulary and futuristic language -- their spirit is extraordinary. • Stanchinsky wrote five piano sonatas: the form mattered to him and, like Medtner, he cultivated it with Imagination and Intensity. Provocatively, the two movement Second Sonata in G combines old-world Beethovenian baroque homage (a slow opening 6/16 progressively tonal Fuga) with new-age assault (a brilliant closing toccata in 11/8 - the modo russico of Mussorgsky's Pictures). • RIP Hexameron: March 31, 2007 - February 29th, 2016
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