Rachmaninoff Paraphrasing Mendelssohn : A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Scherzo - Lugansky

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61. Scherzo (1842), arr. for piano by Rachmaninoff (1933) Nikolai Lugansky, 2004 “Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green: The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dew-drops here And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.” Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene I, a fairy speaks