🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： 4 Lyric Fragments No.3 in f-moll Op.23-3

No. 3 from Medtner’s Four Lyric Fragments is a piano miniature that condenses a songful melody and delicate harmonic shifts, including inner voices, into a brief span of time. Rather than unfolding through a large-scale development, it moves through several ideas with changing breaths, making the contrast between tension and release one of its main points of interest. The melody should remain clearly projected in relief, while the accompaniment figures and inner voices must not sound mechanical. Shape each phrase toward its destination, handle subtle tempo fluctuations naturally, and adjust the pedal so that it connects the sonority without becoming blurred; this brings out the poetic shading and natural flow.