🇫🇷Jacques Ibert ： Stories In the House of Sorrow

The fifth piece of Ibert’s *Stories*, “In the House of Sorrow,” is a piano miniature that portrays the subdued scene suggested by its title through restrained sonorities and delicate shades of color. Rather than emphasizing a large dramatic progression, it allows the mood to shift within a quiet flow through changes in harmony, register, and dynamics. In lyrical passages, the emotion should not be overstated; it is important to maintain a sense of distance from the accompaniment. The pedal should be used carefully to prevent the sound from becoming blurred, while close attention to rests and moments of space brings out the atmosphere of solitude. This is a short piece in which changes of tone color deserve especially careful attention.