🇮🇹Ferruccio Busoni ： Prelude and Fugue Op.5

This work from Busoni’s *Three Pieces* combines a prelude and a fugue. In the prelude, the changing harmonic colors and shifts in flow should be shaped with flexibility, while in the fugue, the interweaving motion of the individual voices should remain clear. Careful attention to the exchange between voices and to balance across the registers is essential, so that the melodic lines do not become obscured. By contrasting the prelude’s freedom of breathing with the fugue’s tightly organized progression, and by using the pedal sparingly to keep the texture clear, performers can bring out the work’s structural appeal.