🇪🇸Isaac Albéniz ： Iberia Book 2 No.5 Almería

The closing piece of Book 2 of Iberia, “Almería,” depicts a brightness and shade suggestive of southern Spain through refined piano writing. A singing melody, finely moving inner voices, and guitar-like accompanying figures overlap as the music unfolds through changing scenes. It is important to distinguish the melody from the accompaniment carefully and to use the pedal clearly enough to keep the sonorities from becoming blurred. Maintaining rhythmic vitality while giving the melody a flexible sense of breath brings out the work’s rich and varied colors.