This short piece will require a lot of work to secure a rewarding performance. Within its thirty-two bars it covers a wide range of dynamics, and its harmonic language moves from a simple G minor to end on a D major chord but during this journey there are passages of dissonance and harmonic tension. Of note is the wide range of dynamics from ppp to ff throughout the piece. While starting slow and mysterious and in fact ending the same way as the music fades virtually to nothing, the anguish of t...