Natalya Shkoda - Piano Music Volume 2: Complete Piano Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the 3rd volume of the overview of Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko's (1896-1938) piano music, Natalya Shkoda continues in her mission to unveil the music of this Ukrainian pianist and composer with Eleven Etudes for Piano, Op. 8 and Twenty-Four Children's Pieces, both receiving their premiere recordings. Gramaphone magazine has said of this series InchBravo to Shkoda for putting her accomplished playing at the service of this musicInch.

Medtner / Stewart - Nikolai Medtner Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2 [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/11/2016

'Although the three selected piano sonatas were all composed in the first half of the 20th century, they convey very different musical impressions. Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Kabalevsky - these are three composers, each with their own personalities and distinctive compositional styles. This diversity opens up three unique musical worlds for us. But through the common genre of the piano sonata, we also gain an insight into the musical and cultural development of Russia and the Soviet Union between 1908 and 1946. Dramaturgically, these works take us through the uncertain and turbulent period between revolutions and the First World War, through the tragedies of the Second World War to a hopeful outlook on a 'bright future' in more peaceful times. For me, all three works are among the hidden treasures of the pianistic repertoire.' Anastasia Yasko