🇺🇦Nikolai Kapustin ： Prelude and Fugue No.21 Op.82-21

Combining a prelude and a fugue, this work brings together Kapustin’s characteristic jazz-derived rhythmic sense and the intricate handling of multiple voices within a single musical arc. The transition from the prelude’s lively momentum to the fugue, where the voices pass the subject from one to another, is a key point to appreciate. In performance, its buoyant rhythms should not become mechanical; the sonority of the chords and the accents should remain clear. Bringing out the principal line while organizing the inner voices, and maintaining a steady tempo even in rapid passages, allows the music’s intellectual structure and vitality to coexist.