Samuil Feinberg (1890 - 1962) - Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 29 (1939)

Nikolaos Samaltanos, piano (2001)

Feinberg's ninth piano sonata is a single-movement work that typically lasts around 9 minutes.

"Feinberg's efforts to say something new in each of his sonatas reminds me of Beethoven. Where Feinberg's Seventh and Eighth Sonatas are like diverse siblings, the single-movement Ninth is terra incognita. It begins in the upper registers of the piano in a frisky and scherzoish manner, as if Mendelssohn's elfin writing has been updated for the 20th century. Feinberg journeys away from his customary darkness and further into a magical realm. He creates interesting sonorities of pianissimos with fortissimos and simultaneous sforzandos in the highest and lowest registers of the piano. But in an unbelievable turn of events, Feinberg's skittish writing becomes a tour-de-force of virtuosity and drama. The tempo and activity increase to heights of madness culminating in a whirlwind of descending scales that sound like the product of two pianists. Then a powerful and transcendent harmonic sequence takes over, and I'm left breathless every time I hear it."

(source: Hexameron's Amazon review - [ Ссылка ])

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