🇩🇪Felix Mendelssohn ： Songs Without Words Book1 Regret in a-moll MWV U 80 Op.19-2

The second piece in Mendelssohn’s Book 1 of Songs Without Words interweaves a singing melody with a restrained accompaniment, evoking the character of a song without words. Within its quiet flow, the melody gradually changes expression, contrasting passages in which tension builds with those that regain their calm. A central point of interest is the way the long-breathed phrases of the main melody are brought forward while the inner voices and accompaniment remain in motion. In performance, it is important to preserve the music’s direction even at subdued dynamics, move naturally toward the climaxes, and adjust the pedal in response to harmonic changes, allowing a delicate resonance to emerge.