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Medtner has never lacked for advocates, yet his work sits on the fringes of the repertoire. Unlike Rachmaninoff, whose compositional fingerprints are instantly recognizable and unmistakably Russian, Medtner’s conservative idiom is harder to pin down. The music has a distinct Francophile character by way of its formal rectitude and emotional reticence. Vladimir Viardo’s brisk and unsentimental way with the Sonata Reminiscenza points up the work’s proximity to Fauré’s elusive… More >>