🇺🇦Nikolai Kapustin ： Elegy Op.96

Kapustin’s Elegy, Op.96 No.3, brings together a lyrical quality tinged with melancholy and his characteristically refined sense of rhythm. Centered on a singing melody passed between the parts, the music shifts from quiet introspection toward moments of mounting tension, creating finely shaded contrasts. Its appeal lies in the dialogue between the phrasing of the melody and the movement of the accompaniment, as well as in the moments when the emotion expands toward its high point. In performance, it is important to balance the individual parts, avoid clouding the sound with excessive pedal, and maintain both rhythmic momentum and the melody’s gentle singing quality.