🇭🇺Bartók Béla Viktor János ： Mikrokosmos Vol.4 No.97 Nocturne BB 105 Sz 107

No. 97, “Nocturne,” from Volume 4 of Mikrokosmos is an educational piece that nevertheless invites the pianist to listen closely to delicate sonorities suggesting nocturnal stillness and distant presences. The placement of the notes and changes in resonance shape the musical flow, while short musical units shift and form the work as a whole. Rather than bringing only the melody to the foreground, attention to the roles of the inner voices and bass makes the layering of the sound more distinct. It is important not to hurry the tempo, to treat rests and the ends of notes carefully, and to use the pedal to preserve resonance without allowing the sound to become blurred. Even within restrained dynamics, each voice should have a clear direction, bringing out the tension contained in the stillness.