🇷🇴Ligeti György Sándor ： Musica Ricercata No.5 Rubato Lamentoso

The fifth piece of Musica Ricercata, as its marking suggests, places a shifting sense of time and profound lament at the forefront rather than a strict metric pulse. The spaces between notes and the rests shape its expression, while short motifs appear intermittently and gradually heighten the tension. The music maintains a broad sense of continuity while contrasting quiet passages with outbursts of intense emotion. In performance, rubato should not mean changing the tempo arbitrarily; it is important to shape it while listening to the weight and resonance of each note. Attention to the singing quality of the melodic lines, as well as to the blurring of the harmonies, the silences, and changes of register, brings out the music’s inner anguish and unsteady breathing. The pedal should support the sound carefully through its decay without allowing the resonance to become excessively blurred.