🇫🇷Gabriel Urbain Fauré ： Ballade in Fis-Dur Op.19

Fauré’s Ballade is an expansive solo work in which singing melodies are interwoven with delicate harmony and richly moving inner voices. At the opening, the melody emerges from a quiet flow, and the music gradually broadens in register and sonority as it moves between tranquil passages and moments of greater tension. When the melody returns, it undergoes subtle changes rather than being simply repeated, allowing the whole work to unfold as one large, continuous arc. In performance, it is important to sustain the right-hand melody in a singing manner, keep the inner voices and accompaniment light and clear, and avoid clouding the sound with the pedal. Do not hurry the smaller figures; attention to the peaks and breathing points of each phrase brings out the work’s poetic, natural sense of expression.