🇫🇮Jean Sibelius ： 5 Sketches – Landscape Op.114-1

“Landscape” is one of the miniatures that make up Sibelius’s late piano collection 5 Sketches. Rather than depicting a specific story, it suggests a spacious scene through intervals between sounds, lingering resonance, and quiet motion. Though brief, the piece has a carefully shaped structure in which the appearance and disappearance of sounds and changes in resonance allow the listener to savor the passage of time. In performance, it is important not to project the melody too forcefully, but to listen closely to the inner voices and bass resonance. The pedal should be used carefully to avoid blurring, while rests and lingering sounds should be treated as part of the expression, bringing out the work’s stillness and depth.