Mendelssohn's Songs without Words Opus 62

I love this collection of piano works. They're all very intense and full of emotion. This piece is great becuase the accompaniement is full of notes and a rapid rhythm while the melody above it is quite slow and lyrical. It's obviously a parallel double symmetrical period. (Even I can tell, which says a lot for how well the piece was written.) The second section modulates to another key and ends on a PAC. Then the original section returns and the exact same harmonic and rhythmic progression is used except it is played quietly. This structural phenomenon makes it sound different from the first time we heard it. At the end, the section is expanded in an extension that grows into a closure that seems like a blossoming Starlight Lily in brilliant shades of pink and orange.