Mendelssohn - Songs without Words (Selected Favorites)

By Felix Mendelssohn / ed. Willard A. Palmer

With these compositions, Mendelssohn wished to encourage interpretive skills in pianists by relying more on imagery than words. With the editor's helpful introduction, including performance suggestions, this compilation of 20 pieces will most definitely accomplish the composer's goals.

UPC: 038081021478
ISBN 10: 0739003658
ISBN 13: 9780739003657

Titles:

• Confidence [Op. 19, No. 4] 
• Consolation [Op. 30, No. 3] 
• Cradle Song [Op. 67, No. 6]
• Elegy [Op. 85, No. 4 (Posthumous)] 
• Faith [Op. 102, No. 6 (Posthumous)]
• Folk Song [Op. 53, No. 5] 
• Reverie [Op. 85, No. 1 (Posthumous)] 
• Song of the Heather [Op. 67, No. 5] 
• Song of the Pilgrim [Op. 67, No. 3] 
• Spinning Song [Op. 67, No. 4] 
• Spring Song [Op. 62, No. 6] 
• Tarantella [Op. 102, No. 3 (Posthumous)] 
• The Adieu [Op. 85, No. 2 (Posthumous)]
• The Brook [Op. 30, No. 5] 
• The Joyous Peasant [Op. 102, No. 5 (Posthumous)] 
• The Return [Op. 85, No. 5 (Posthumous)] 
• The Wanderer [Op. 30, No. 4] 
• Venetian Gondola Song No. 1 [Op. 19, No. 6]
• Venetian Gondola Song No. 2 [Op. 30, No. 6]
• Venetian Gondola Song No. 3 [Op. 62, No. 5]