乘著歌聲的翅膀

Violin: On Wings Of Song, Op.34, No.2 Composer: Mendelssohn Artist: Sarah Chang Rebecca Lin 2008 Winter In USA

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回複海蘭江的評論:

Thank you so much for sharing the wonderful lyrics. I really appreciate it.

Happy Spring to you,

Rebecca

[海蘭江]

乘著這歌聲的翅膀

親愛的隨我前往

去到那恒河的岸邊

最美麗的地方


那花園裏開滿了紅花

月亮在放射光輝

玉蓮花在那兒等待

等她的小妹妹


紫羅蘭微笑地耳語

仰望著明亮星星

玫瑰花悄悄地講著

她芬芳的心情


那溫柔而可愛的羚羊

跳過來細心傾聽

遠處那聖河的波濤

發出了喧嘯聲


我要和你雙雙降落

在那邊椰子林中

享受著愛情和安靜

做甜美幸福的夢

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On Wings of Song

Listeners will immediately recognize Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song whether in its original form for voice and piano or as transcribed for piano by Liszt or for violin and piano by Jascha Heifetz. It is the best known of Mendelssohn's 100 or so songs.

Mendelssohn wrote the piece a couple of months after moving to Leipzig to become director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Singakademie. He had just spent a frustrating two years in Düsseldorf trying to conduct somewhat amateur musicians and performing for unappreciative audiences. He found that everything in cosmopolitan, cultured Leipzig was to his liking; his contentment is reflected in this song.

Heinrich Heine's text tells of melody's power to transport lovers to the most beautiful night garden, with bright and fragrant flowers, gazelles, a murmuring stream, and a palm tree, under which they can dream. The song begins with a very brief piano introduction, outlining the upward arpeggiated harmony used throughout the piece. The vocal line gently drifts in a 6/8 meter, dotted rhythmic pattern that is typical of Mendelssohn.

The melody of the two verses follows a simple AB structure. For a brief moment, at the beginning of the B section, the song slips into the minor to convey the wonder of the things seen in the garden, but quickly moves back into the major.

The end of each verse contains a sustained pause, while the piano completes an extended arpeggio. Then, there is a break in the accompaniment, when quiet chords are used to support the final line of the verse before returning to an arpeggiated bridge.

A coda reprises the beginning A section of the verse, and then the melody slowly winds down, the piano continuing the arpeggiation until the final two chords, as the lovers drift off to "dream our blessed dream.(Source: All Music Guide)

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Felix Mendelssohn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn[1] (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born to a notable Jewish family which later converted to Christianity. He was recognised early as a prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his abilities. Indeed his father was disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he intended to seriously dedicate himself to it.

Early success in Germany was followed by travel throughout Europe; Mendelssohn was particularly well received in England as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there, during which many of his major works were premiered, form an important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical tastes however set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Liszt, Wagner and Berlioz. The Conservatoire he founded at Leipzig became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook.

Mendelssohn's work includes symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano and chamber music. He also had an important role in the revival of interest in the music of J. S. Bach. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality is now being recognized and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.

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Sarah Chang
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sarah Chang is a Korean-American violin virtuoso. She was born on December 10, 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Korean parents. Min-Soo Chang, her father, is a violinist, and Myoung Jun Chang, her mother, is a composer. Her parents had moved to the United States in 1979 so that Sarah's father could study for an advanced music degree at Temple University. Her mother was taking composition classes at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a younger brother named Michael.

Chang was recognized as a child prodigy early on and when she was 8 was given the opportunity to audition with such names as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who were working, respectively, with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both gave her immediate engagements.

Sarah Chang performing outdoors at the Festival I suoni delle Dolomiti in 2005.She has collaborated with most major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the principal London orchestras, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

She currently plays the 1717 Guarneri del Gesu violin, which she purchased in her teens. She uses a variety of bows: Pajeot for Mozart and Bach; Sartory for "the big-whammy concertos, the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius"; and two Dominique Peccattes for other music.