🇷🇺Nikolai Karlovich Medtner ： Two Fairy Tales No.1 in b-moll Op.20-1

This character piece condenses a dreamlike sense of fantasy and an inward-looking intensity that suggests a story. Against its singing melody, the accompaniment and inner voices move with delicate detail, giving depth to the layers of sound. A key point is the contrast between passages in which the melody comes to the fore and those in which increased activity changes the expression. In performance, keep the main melody clearly projected without making the inner voices too hard, while carefully sensing the phrasing and harmonic changes. The pedal should be used sparingly and changed with attention to the exchange of sounds, so that the texture does not become blurred.