🇺🇦Nikolai Kapustin ： Three Impromptus No.3 Op.66-3

No. 3 from Kapustin’s Three Impromptus is a vibrant miniature in which improvisatory freedom is closely joined to finely detailed piano writing. Its sharp rhythms, syncopation, and jazz-inflected harmonic language drive the music forward, while changes in density from one passage to another give the flow a sense of contrast. Alongside its light-footed momentum, listen for shifts in sonority and moments of pause. In performance, avoid forcing the highly active passages; instead, maintain a firm sense of pulse while bringing out the individual voices clearly. Rather than making the accents mechanically uniform, supple dynamics and natural breathing allow the work’s improvisatory spontaneity to emerge.