🇳🇴Edvard Grieg ： Album Leaves No.1 Op.28-1

No. 1 from Grieg’s Album Leaves is a miniature with an appealing, songful melody and delicate harmonic shifts. The main melody emerges over a gently flowing accompaniment, while exchanges between melodic lines and changes in sonority create a natural sense of rise and fall within its compact span. In performance, it is important to shape the melodic peaks and phrase endings carefully while keeping the inner voices and accompaniment discreet. A supple touch that connects the notes, a tempo with a sense of breathing, and careful pedaling that avoids clouding the harmony bring out the piece’s intimate, lyrical charm.