🇫🇷Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ： Six Fugues No.3 Op.161

No. 3 from Saint-Saëns’s Six Fugues, Op. 161, is a piano work that reveals the intricate appeal of contrapuntal writing as its subject is passed from one voice to another and developed. The musical flow is shaped by the presentation of the subject and its responses in the different voices, as well as by imitation and dialogue between the parts. Paying attention to the independence of each voice and the balance of the whole brings the skill of the writing into clearer focus. In performance, the subject should remain audible without allowing the other voices to become too prominent, while the direction of each phrase and changes in tension should be carefully conveyed. Pedaling should be used with restraint to avoid blurring the texture and to keep the movement of the individual voices clear.