🇫🇷Jacques Ibert ： Stories Under the Table

“Under the Table,” from Ibert’s piano collection Stories, is a miniature that seems to capture an everyday scene through humorous imagination. Short motives, finely articulated rhythmic movement, and witty accents shift its expression alongside layered sonorities and changes of register. A point of interest is to hear the music as a single flow while differentiating its changes in character. In performance, rather than simply pushing the tempo, give careful attention to the timing of rests and clarity of attack, responding nimbly to changes in dynamics to bring out its clever atmosphere.