Nikolai Medtner: Sonata in E minor “Night Wind“. Andrey Ponochevny (piano) Minsk 2011

Nikolai Medtner Sonata in E minor “Night Wind“ . Andrey Ponochevny (piano) . Live from Minsk Philharmonic Hall. June 2011 The Seventh Sonata in E minor, “Night Wind“ , No.2 was completed in 1911 and dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninoff, who immediately recognized its greatness. It bears this epigraph by the Russian poet Tyutchev, in which the poet sees chaos as man’s natural inheritance: What are you wailing about, night wind, what are you lamenting so frantically? What does your strange voice, now mu