Two names to look out for are pianists Marc-André Hamelin (who has recorded all the sonatas for Hyperion) and Hamish Milne (who has made a real speciality of Medtner's music). That said, it's also worth coming the catalogues for recordngs of some of his songs which are on a par with, though distinctly different to, Rakhmaninov's. You should also try to get hold of his three sonatas for violin and piano. Much of Medtner's music is now recorded and a fair amount of it still available. There have also been reissues of the composer's own recordings made late in life under the auspices of the Maharajah of Mysore; again, like his friend Rakhmaninov, Medtner was a very considerable pianist.

Yes, pretty much at odds, it would seem! The piano quintet, on which Medtner worked on and (I imagine mostly) off for some 45 years and which I seem to recall he himself believed to be the summit of his creative achievement strikes me as a perfectly decent piece - and therefore a sad disappointment coming as it did from a composer who otherwise rarely wrote below his superb best; it seems rather bland to me, especially compared to his finest music.

Anyway, we not only agree on Hamish Milne but on Medtner himself, which I guess is what matters most on this subject!