🇷🇺Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ： Four Pieces Despair Op.4-3

“Despair” is a short piano piece that sharply portrays an intense psychological state through highly charged chords and unstable harmonic movement. Fragmented gestures and weighty sonorities intersect, while the contrast between forceful accents and quiet spaces gives the music a powerful sense of disturbance. It is important to shape the overall flow as one sustained arc of tension and to preserve a firm rhythmic core even in the smaller gestures. Rather than relying solely on forceful attacks, the performer should listen carefully to the clarity of the sonorities and remain aware of rests and lingering resonance, bringing out the work’s instability and concentrated power.