The Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 Paperback – July 30, 1998

As a doctorate student in piano performance, for me this is a really great edition, and very much affordable (especially for a student).It is a direct reprint of the first Soviet Union complete Medtner edition from the late 1950's. Which means that this is a very authoritative edition. I don't know of any better edition, although there is Henle, but it is very expensive and mostly follows the same source. I usually buy any russian composer's music from russian editions or reprints, as it follows the closest or exactly to the manuscript (and most of them are the first edition in themselves).As for the music - these are highly technical pieces that require some good technical facilities and an advanced musical understanding. However, I do not rule out the intermediate or amateur pianists that are just want to be exposed to some really great russian yet underperformed piano music. Recommended for all who appreciates piano music!

This has become my favorite piano music to sit and play from cover to cover. there is so much more to learn and explore with every pass. This first volume includes what are currently my two favorite sonatas. the third of the sonata trio and the night wind.

Wonderful music, but what happened to Dover? This edition has cheap paper and a lousy binding that does not lie flat. You might as well download from IMSLP, because you'll need to xerox these pages anyhow.

Nice edition. GREAT price. I was expecting a terrible binding that would fall apart and my intention was to have it cut and spiral bound at a kinkos-like establishment. The binding was MUCH better than I expected. It may hold up in the long run. Time will tell.

A publication of the Medtner sonatas for piano, let alone a new edition, has been long overdue. This first volume brings together the first seven sonatas of Medtner; with a preface by Eugene Istomin, performance notes by Geoffrey Tozer...an unduly neglected composer...many admired Medtner's music; Horowitz, Gilels, Rachmaninoff, and in our time Hamelin, Milne, Demidenko, Tozer to name but a few...a definite must have for pianists who want to find alternatives to the core group of "standard" sonatas of this century...pianistic difficulty ranges from intermediate to very difficult... but well worth the challenge!

Masterful

Medtner is essential to any piano music library. Too good not to miss.