🇮🇹Ferruccio Busoni ： Medieval Sketches

Busoni’s *Medieval Sketches* is a collection of piano miniatures that uses melodies and sonorities suggesting an archaic atmosphere to portray a variety of moods. From simple musical material emerge passages with a quiet, prayerful character as well as moments containing tension within restrained movement, allowing the distinct personality of each piece to come through. In performance, it is important to keep the melodic lines clear while carefully balancing the inner voices and overlapping harmonies. The pedal should support the resonance without clouding the texture, and a poised articulation shaped by an awareness of the music’s archaic character, together with natural dynamic changes from one passage to another, can bring the set to life.