🇷🇴Ligeti György Sándor ： Etudes Book III No.16 Pour Irina

Placed toward the end of Book III of the Études, “Pour Irina” is an étude where quiet lyricism meets delicate motion. Within transparent layers of sound, fragments of melody and chords emerge with spaces between them, while shifting resonance and a flexible sense of time carry the music forward. The piece can be heard as a single continuous span, though changes in density and tension create small points of articulation. In performance, it is important to listen carefully to the individual lines and avoid clouding the resonance with the pedal. Do not hurry; treat rests and lingering sonorities as part of the expression, and use subtle dynamics and a flexible sense of tempo to draw out the work’s inward poetry.