🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： 7 Lieder (Mendelssohn) S.547/R.217 No.5 “Spring Song”

Liszt’s arrangement for solo piano of Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song” brings the original melody’s approachable lyricism into the layered sonorities of the piano. A singing main theme is colored by the right hand’s flowing motion, while gentle cantabile passages alternate with more brilliant movement as the music unfolds and intensifies. The melody should remain clearly projected above the accompaniment, whose figurations need to be shaped with lightness and control, allowing phrases to move naturally toward their peaks. Decorative passages should not be forced; a transparent tone and flexible pedaling help preserve the bright, fresh quality suggestive of spring.