🇺🇦Nikolai Kapustin ： Five Etudes in Different Intervals Allegro: Etude in fourths and fifths Op.68-2

The second piece in Kapustin’s Five Etudes in Different Intervals is an Allegro etude built around the intervals of fourths and fifths. Within its clear rhythmic profile and forward-driving motion, these intervallic relationships are incorporated into a variety of musical passages, giving the succession of notes a distinctive, hard-edged contour. Its appeal lies in the way the intervallic sonority joins with the rhythm and develops while maintaining a sense of tension. In performance, do not pursue speed alone: keep the fourths and fifths precisely even, and make the individual notes and accents clear. Maintain lightness in both hands and shape the dynamic changes so that the playing does not become mechanical, allowing the work’s vitality to emerge.