🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： Forgotten Melodies Book 3 Wave Dance Op.40-5

Forgotten Melodies Book 3: Wave Dance is a piano miniature marked by gently shifting rhythms and a stream of sound that suggests the movement of waves. While its intricate motion continues almost without interruption, changes in melody and harmony bring subtle shifts of expression, preserving a sense of tension beneath its lightness. One of its attractions lies in shaping the larger flow and connecting changes of dynamics and tempo organically from one passage to the next. In performance, the busy passages should remain even and relaxed, while the inner voices should not be allowed to disappear. The direction of the melody and the peaks of each phrase should be clearly defined. Pedaling requires care to avoid blurring the sonority, allowing the music’s continuous ebb and flow to emerge.