Just to give my personal opinion on the one track I have heard in all that set- the g minor sonata, op. 22- however good Tozer may be in the concerti and shorter pieces (and I am told he is quite good in them), in the g minor sonata at least he is horrid. I much prefer other performances I have heard (Fellegi of all people; Gilels; hoping to hear Hamelin on Hyperion soon, and others as time and opportunity permit.) The performance is slow without being deep, generates no exhiliration in fast sections where I for one am convinced exhiliration should be, and is an improvement on versions I know well only in one place near the end. (A pity, since Tozer's Respighi recordings, for instance, are rather good...) If you end up enjoying the set, well and good, and I do not mean to dissuade you from so doing- if you do not, I wish rather that you do not blame this on the composer, for the works are anything but the unmelodic, abstract and unlovable things they are often painted as, and can be believed to be if heard only in poor performances. But it .is. my earnest hope that you disagree with me, that you enjoy - nay, are thrilled by - the entire set, and that after hearing Tozer play the 13 Medtner piano solo sonatas you wonder if, in fact, I am tonedeaf for so criticizing his performance of the g minor... *g* (Another work by Medtner I have heard given wildly varying interpretations- so wildly varying that I could imagine someone coming to one simply not understanding the strong reaction to the work evinced by someone who came to the other- is the sonata reminiscenza op. 38/1; of this I have heard Fellegi, Gilels and a midi of my own making. Curiously I have liked my own MIDI and Fellegi more than I have liked Gilels... perhaps this speaks ill of me, though I did my best to make my MIDI diverse in tempo and means of attack. Gilels' approach to the piece - from an MK CD coupled with wonderful performances of Vainberg, Prokofiev, and Scriabin - simply conveyed little or nothing to me but pointless changes where the composer seemed to want to convey his emotional point within a context of regularity of tempo... it was not a pleasant experience:) Sorry 'bout the ramble! Eric Schissel [log in to unmask] http://www.lightlink.com/schissel ICQ#7279016