Grateful Dead Family Discography: Spring Song

Spring Song

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Spring Song was occasionally noodled by the Grateful Dead during tuning and delays.

The full title of the piece this tuning is based on is Lieder ohne Worte, op. 62, No. 6 A-dur (Songs Without Words, Opus 62, No 6 in A major). The Spring Song (Frühlingslied) subtitle became associated with the piece after it's original publication.

There are eight volumes of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words. Six of these were published during his lifetime, between 1830 and 1845, the last two were published after his death. Each volume comprises 6 solo piano pieces. 'Spring Song' is the final piece of the fifth volume. Mendelssohn named only a small number of the pieces. Others, as with Spring Song, had named attached to them, usually by publishers, at a later date. On one occasion on being asked why the songs had no words Mendelsshon replied;

Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not want to tell anyone, because the same word means different things to different people. Only the songs say the same thing, arouse the same feeling, in everyone - a feeling that can't be expressed in words.

Grateful Dead

Three From The Vault, Grateful Dead, 2007

Recordings

The is only a small selection of other recordings.

no info Charles D'Almaine, 1900
no info Alexander Heindl, 1902
no info Rosario Bourdon, 1906
no info Victor E. Sorlin, 1910
no info Frank La Forge, 1911
no info Victor Herbert's Orchestra, 1911
no info Vladimir de Pachmann, 1911
no info Josef Hoffman, 1912
no info Mike Bernard, 1912
no info Maximilian Pilzer, 1913
no info Olive Kline, 1913
no info Ellery Band, 1913
no info Fritz Kreisler, 1915
no info Charles Gorst, 1916
no info The Florentine Quartet, 1917
no info Trio Lutece, 1918
no info Efrem Zimbalist, 1920
no info Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 1922
no info Vadim Borisovsky, 1958
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Lívia Rév, 1987
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Vol. 1, Martin Jones, 1988
no info Encores, Vladimir Horowitz, 1990
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Luba Edlina, 1991
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Ilse von Alpenheim, 1993
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Rena Kyriakou, 1993
no info Classical Piano Favourites, Eva Sukova, 1995
no info Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Music, Martin Jones, 1996
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Daniel Adni, 1996
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Daniel Barenboim, 1997
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Peter Arne Rohde, 1998
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words / Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Walter Gieseking, 1998
no info Piano, Esther Budiardjo, 1999
no info Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Annie D'Arco, 2000
no info Lieder ohne Worte, Carmen Piazzini, 2002
no info The Romantic Piano, Vol. 1, Daniel Barenboim, 2004
no info Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 62, 67, 85, 102, Rena Kyriakou, 2005
no info Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Werte, Tilam Kramer, 2006
no info Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Teil 2, Tilam Kramer, 2006
no info Mendelssohn: Piano Works Box Set, Dana Protopopescu, 2008
no info Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte - Songs without Words, Amir Katz, 2009
no info The Essential, Vladimir Horowitz, 2009
no info Mendelssohn: The Complete Masterpieces: 1809-1847 Box Set, 2009
no info Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World....Ever!, Various Artists (Daniel Adni), 2009

Arrangement of Spring Song by Benny Goodman and others.

no info Single (Spring Song / Honeysuckle Rose), Benny Goodman And His Orchestra, 1939
no info The Jazz Collector Edition, Benny Goodman Orchestra, 1991
no info Masters of Jazz, Vols. 1-5, Various Artists, 1992
no info Beethoven Wrote It, But It Swings, Various Artists, 1996
no info Kings of Swing, Various Artists, 1998
no info Chronological Classics: 1939, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, 1999
no info Plays Henderson, Vol. 2 (1936-41), Benny Goodman, 1999
no info Benny Goodman's Golden Era, Vol. 3, Benny Goodman, 2000
no info A Journey to a Star, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, 2005
no info The Columbia and OKeh Sessions, Benny Goodman Orchestra, 2009