🇮🇹Ferruccio Busoni ： Jesu meine Freude

This arrangement by Busoni, based on a chorale, has an introspective and finely balanced sound. With several voices layered around the principal melody, it suggests the richness of an organ while allowing the flow of each part to be heard on the piano. The music unfolds with a broad sense of breath, and its harmonic changes and exchanges between voices are especially rewarding to hear. In performance, it is important to bring out the melody clearly without allowing the inner voices to become too prominent. The pedal should support the resonance without clouding it; attention to the direction of phrases, their climaxes, and their points of repose helps convey the work’s quiet sense of prayer and depth.