🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Bagatelle sans tonalité S.216a/R.60c

Liszt’s Bagatelle sans tonalité creates a distinctive sense of tension without relying on a clear tonal center, using chromatic movement, sharp dissonances, and unpredictable leaps. Short motives and fragments of harmony appear and shift in succession, carrying the music forward through finely contrasted episodes, so it is important to hear the piece as a continuous whole. In performance, each figure should be clearly differentiated in character, while sudden changes in dynamics and register are brought out with care. The pedal must be controlled to keep the texture from becoming blurred. The changing expression within its sharp-edged language is one of the work’s central attractions.