Lugansky - Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op. 85, No. 4

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Op. 85, Book 7 (1843-1845, pub. posth. 1851)
No. 4 in D major, Andante Sostenuto
Nikolai Lugansky, 2016
Moscow Philharmonic Society
“Resignation, melancholy, worship, a hunting call; these words do not call up the same feeling in two different persons; what is resignation to one is melancholy to another, while a third person attaches no definite significance to either. If one were a downright keen hunter by nature, perhaps the hunting call would come to signify to one pretty much the same thing as worship, and the notes of a horn be veritably a sort of anthem. We should hear nothing in it but the hunting call, and however much we might discuss it with the huntsman we should never come to an agreement. The word would still be many-sensed, and yet we should both understand the music.”

-Mendelssohn, 1842, Letter to Herr Souchay

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