🇫🇷Claude Debussy ： Preludes 2 “La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune” F-Dur

This prelude is marked by a quiet afterglow and a sense of expansiveness, as if gazing into the distance. Within layered sonorities spanning the low and high registers, fragmentary motives and gentle chords emerge, while the music gradually deepens its resonance without losing its steady underlying motion. The contrast between its freely shifting flow and moments of increased sonorous fullness is one of its principal attractions. In performance, it is important to bring out the inner voices and carefully distinguish the colors of each layer. The pedal should sustain the resonance without allowing it to become blurred, and any flexibility of tempo should remain natural and restrained, allowing the delicate atmosphere to come fully into focus.