Alexei Stanchinsky - Piano Sonata No.2
Alexei Stanchinsky (1888 - 1914), Piano Sonata No.2 in G Major (1911 - 1912)
Nikolai Fefilov, piano.
I. Fuga, lento expressivo [00:00]
II. Presto [07:15]
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).