🇺🇦Nikolai Kapustin ： Prelude and Fugue No.8 Op.82-8

No. 8 from Kapustin’s 24 Preludes and Fugues is a work that can be experienced as a continuous musical arc from prelude to fugue. In the prelude, lively rhythms suggestive of jazz idioms and vivid harmonies shape the flow, while in the fugue, the exchange of the subject and the overlapping voices propel the music forward. Its lightness is matched by meticulous writing, making it rewarding to follow both the movement of each voice and the overall momentum. In performance, it is important to maintain rhythmic precision without becoming rigid, while clearly bringing out accents and harmonic changes. In the fugue, keeping the subject from being obscured and carefully balancing it with the other voices allows its refined vitality to emerge.