🇺🇦Nikolai Kapustin ： Paraphrase Op.118

A piano-solo paraphrase based on “Brazilian Watercolors,” reworked through Kapustin’s polished jazz vocabulary. While retaining the appeal of the source melodies, it draws out both accessibility and brilliance through buoyant rhythms, syncopation, rich harmony, and a wide-ranging sonority. The changing character of each passage and the overall flow are especially rewarding to follow. In performance, it is essential to keep the left-hand rhythm steady while bringing the right-hand melody clearly to the fore. Rather than being driven by the smaller note values, maintain a natural sense of breath and bounce, and make the most of contrasts in dynamics and articulation to bring the music’s vitality into sharper relief.