Rachmaninoff Paraphrasing Mendelssohn : Scherzo A Midsummer Nights Dream Lugansky

Felix Mendelssohn (18091847) Scherzo from A Midsummer Night s Dream, Op. 61 (1842); arr. for piano by Rachmaninoff (1933) Nikolai Lugansky, 2021, Mariinsky Theatre I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in neverending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazedand gazedbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasu