🇮🇹Ferruccio Busoni ： Sonatina No.6 Chamber Fantasy on Bizet Carmen Kind.284

This fantasy boldly reworks striking musical material from Bizet’s opera Carmen for solo piano. Within the continuous flow of a single movement, quoted and transformed melodies alternate with contrasting, scene-like characters, creating a brilliance and dramatic momentum that extend beyond the concise framework of a sonatina. In performance, the melodies that recall the original opera should be brought clearly to the fore, while the lightness of the finely detailed motion, the separation of voices, and the sudden changes of expression are carefully shaped. Rather than allowing the virtuosity to dominate, distinguishing the character of each passage brings out the work’s humor and theatrical appeal.