🇫🇷Joseph Maurice Ravel ： Miroirs No3 Une barque sur l ocean in fis-moll

The third piece from Ravel’s Miroirs evokes a small boat moving across the sea and the swell of the waves through finely shifting arpeggios and sonorities spanning a wide register. Within its continuous flow, layers of sound and dynamics constantly change, tracing a course from moments of mounting tension back toward stillness. In performance, it is important to balance the textures so that the melody rises clearly above the inner voices, to use the pedal without blurring the harmony, and to maintain a flexible sense of breath without becoming too bound by the meter. Rather than hurrying the intricate figures, shaping the overall wave-like motion on a broad scale brings out the music’s richly colored sense of depth.