ExclusiveMendelssohn: 6 Songs, Op. 34 No. 2, On Wings of Song (Auf Flügeln des Gesanges)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Felix Mendelssohn: 6 Songs, Op. 34 No. 2, On Wings of Song (Auf Flügeln des Gesanges). Transcribed by Liszt. This beautiful piece was presented by germanrecords. It is a royalty free music from Pond5.com.

On Wings of Song (MWV K 86) is a song by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on a Heine text. It is the second of his ‘Six Songs with Accompaniment of the Pianoforte’ (Opus 34, No. 2 / MWV SD 13, 1834). It is a setting of the poem On Wings of Song by the German romantic poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), which was published in his Book of Songs in 1827. Franz Liszt arranged Mendelssohn's setting of Heine's poem On Wings of Song for solo piano. Stephen Heller's (1813–1888) op. 67 piano improvisations are also based on On Wings of Song. The lyrics have been translated into many other languages.


Lyric: https://oxfordsong.org/
On wings of song
English translation © Richard Stokes

On wings of song
I’ll bear you, beloved, away,
Away to the fields by the Ganges
Where I know the loveliest spot.

A red-blossoming garden lies there
In the quiet light of the moon;
The lotus flowers await
Their dear little sister.

The violets titter and flirt
And gaze up at the stars;
Secretly the roses whisper
Fragrant tales to each other.

The knowing and innocent gazelles
Come leaping up to listen;
And in the distance murmur
The waves of the sacred stream.

Let us lie down by its banks,
Underneath the palm,
And drink in love and peace
And dream a blissful dream.
Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)

The video was captured by Christian Schlegel and was edited by Wenjing Ma.




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