All that you hear, sense around you as a human… and your mighty, ignorant heart… add to this background of life but set yourself apart to one crucial idea that you can walk on that seemingly moving carpet of water and you can literally (or musically if you prefer it as a synonym) walk on and away unharmed but mind you, changed immensely because of this experience. The water comes ragging in a cave with big, black, natural pillars. This eccentric island and her tall cave planted this idea in his mind, an idea that he could be walking on every angry wave overflowing the cave. There was so much life around him (still is), he could feel nothing but life asking him to dance, to scream “I love you”, and dream of no more desires. Fingal’s cave was written by Nature in the language of souls. Tempest, crescendo, grave, piano… these are a few coded movements of life used in this symphony, of nature and us, in a language that only souls can decipher.

The Hebrides of Felix starts with the water presenting the cave’s floor, and it does this with a calm voice to give you courage, to inspire you to stay and see the most magnificent waves that looks solid enough to walk on. Felix has written them solid. It is a trick of nature to impress you when it wants you silent, to write deep inside your soul, something for you to carry all your life. Any place who can inspire such forms of profound artistry is hard to find and is uniquely tailored for each of us, to make us appreciate the simplicity of life. The Fingal’s cave has a narrow hall where water is pushed in and pulled out without waiting to be asked, where the enormous ocean is visiting it wave after wave. The end of time will come when all the ocean has been in and out of it, and when the applauses are going to resemble the sound of the waves.

Go ahead and play the symphony now. Place yourself in a cave by the ocean and feel how the Mendelssohn’s music is twisting your attitude towards life; feel the destruction of our fears with your courage of being there and enjoying that dangerous place. Music will let you know what to feel and what you can understand by being alone in a place where only a few can stand this abundance of emotions.

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

FIN

Roberto Palu