🇫🇷Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ： Six Etudes Prelude and Fugue in f-moll Op.52

This piece consists of a prelude and a fugue, offering the listener the harmonic flow and tightly woven contrapuntal writing. In the prelude, the direction of each voice should be clearly shaped while attending to the tension and release created by the movement of the notes. In the following fugue, the subject passes from voice to voice, and the overlapping lines drive the music forward. It is important to keep the subject’s outline distinct and to listen carefully to the movement of the inner voices. Organizing the fingering and pedaling, maintaining a clear touch that avoids clouding the sound, and adding natural dynamics and breathing at key points will bring out the work’s refined structure and expression.