🇷🇺Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky ： Piano Sonata

Stravinsky’s Piano Sonata is striking for its writing, which emphasizes the clarity of individual lines and rhythmic contours rather than building up dense sonorities. Across its multi-movement structure, the interplay of contrapuntal lines, sharp accents, and tense harmonies creates contrasting expressions from one passage to another. It is important to differentiate the individual voices clearly and to use the pedal sparingly so that overlapping sounds do not become blurred. To avoid letting the music become merely mechanical, performers should preserve the forward momentum of the beat while carefully shaping the direction of each phrase and its dynamic changes, bringing out both the work’s intellectual structure and the distinctive resonance of the piano.