Ullrich Scheideler has edited one of Mendelssohn’s most important and beautiful piano works, comparing it again with the sources. Henle Publishers is now issuing it in a revised edition with his comprehensive commentary.
The sparkling bravura piece was called an “Etude” in the first version of 1828. Two years later Mendelssohn wanted to present the work to the young piano virtuoso Delphine von Schauroth, whom he was courting at the time. He reworked it under the new title “Rondo capriccioso”, making it even more brilliant and adding a “moving introductory adagio” (thus described in a letter to Fanny). In this form, the work still presents all good pianists with a rewarding challenge.
烏爾里希·謝德勒編輯了門德爾松最重要、最優美的鋼琴作品之一,並再次將其與原始樂譜進行了比對。亨勒出版社現正發行該作品的修訂版,並附有謝德勒詳盡的評註。
這首光彩奪目的炫技之作在1828年的最初版本中被稱為「練習曲」。兩年後,孟德爾頌想將這首作品獻給他當時正在追求的年輕鋼琴家德爾菲娜·馮·紹羅特。他將其重新改編,並更名為“隨想迴旋曲”,使其更加輝煌,並添加了一段“動人的引子慢板”(他在給范妮的信中如此描述)。即便以這樣的形式,這首作品至今仍能為所有優秀的鋼琴家帶來極具挑戰性的演奏體驗。