🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： Four Fairy Tales No.1 in E-flat Major Op.26-1

This concise yet suggestive character piece opens Medtner’s Four Fairy Tales. A song-like melody interacts with finely moving accompaniment voices, allowing a single scene to unfold quietly. It is important to preserve the breath of the melody while bringing out the changes in the inner voices and harmony with care. By keeping the direction of each phrase in mind, avoiding a mechanically fixed tempo, and creating natural pauses in response to the resonance of the sounds, the piece’s narrative quality and delicate shades come to the fore. Balance between the hands, clarity in the details, and a light overall character are central to an effective performance.