Rachmaninoff Paraphrasing Mendelssohn : Scherzo “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - Lugansky

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, Op. 61 (1842); arr. for piano by Rachmaninoff (1933)
Nikolai Lugansky, 2021, Mariinsky Theatre
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
William Wordsworth, 1802

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