🇫🇷Henri Dutilleux ： Au Gre des Ondes – Etude

The sixth piece in Au gré des ondes, this étude displays a study-like character without reducing the music to a mere exercise in technique, drawing instead on Dutilleux’s refined sense of sonority and richly varied harmonic language. The movement of short motifs and subtle rhythmic changes propel the music forward, while shifts of expression emerge within its concise flow. In practice, begin by clarifying the individual voices and rhythms, taking care to keep the notes even without allowing the tempo to run away. Listening closely to overlapping sonorities and shaping the gradations of dynamics and the direction of each phrase will bring out the music’s lightness and underlying tension.