MENDELSSOHN LISZT Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (live concert)

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MENDELSSOHN LISZT Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by concert pianist Stephanie ELBAZ.
Live-recorded during the Palermo Classica Winter Season 2018/2019. All rights reserved.
https://www.stephanie-elbaz.com

Auf Flügeln des Gesanges  (literally « on wings of song » in English) is a beautiful lieder, which was initially composed for piano and voice by Felix Mendelssohn, and set to the eponymous verses by the German romantic poet Heinrich Heine.
Seduced by the beauty of the piece, Liszt subsequently arranged it for piano solo.

On Wings of Song,
Sweetheart, I carry you away,
Away to the fields of the Ganges,
Where I know the most beautiful place.

There is a garden of red flax
In the quiet moonlight;
The lotus flowers
await their charming little sister.

The violets giggle and caress,
And gaze up at the stars;
Secretly the roses tell each other
Fragrant fairy-stories.

The pious, wise gazelles;
Hop near and listen
And far away 
The sacred river's waves roar.

There we will lie down
Under the palm tree
Peace and love and drink
And dream our blissful dream.

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)