🇫🇷Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ： Suite Prelude and Fugue Op.90

Saint-Saëns’s Suite Prelude and Fugue, Op. 90-1, is the first piece combining a Prelude and a Fugue. The Prelude carefully presents the flow of the melody and harmonic changes, while in the succeeding Fugue, the subject unfolds as it passes between the voices. The progression from a free-flowing introduction to tightly interwoven contrapuntal writing is one of the work’s highlights. In performance, it is important to balance the voices and bring each entrance of the subject clearly to the foreground. Rather than relying too heavily on the pedal, shape note lengths and articulation with the fingers, balancing the Prelude’s singing flow with the Fugue’s forward momentum.