🇫🇷Henri Dutilleux ： Petit Prelude en Eventail

Dutilleux’s Petit Prelude en Eventail is a piano piece that condenses a sense of spaciousness and delicate coloration into a brief span of music. Rather than unfolding as a broadly singing melody, it proceeds by inviting the ear to attend to the placement of sounds and the changing resonance, with subtle gestures combining to shape the overall flow. From the opening, the interplay and register of the sounds should be carefully judged, while the pedal should preserve resonance without allowing the texture to become blurred. Sensing the tension and release within the beat, and maintaining the direction of each phrase, allows the performer to bring out the work’s character through refined dynamic control and changes of touch.