Ludwig van Beethoven: 10 variierte Themen für Klavier, Flöte oder Violine ad. lib. op. 107
Nr. 10 Variationen über "The Highland Watch"
Die Schlussnummer ist wieder eine Air écossais, spirituoso e marciale. Heiter und unterhaltend geht der Zyklus zu Ende. Die pausenlose Marschmelodie wird in den Variationen aufgelöst, in der 2. Variation werden dem sublimierten Marschrhythmus in der linken Hand Synkopen in der rechten Hand und in der Flötenstimme entgegen gesetzt. Die vierte ist ein Adagio espressivo. Die fünfte verwandelt die Marschmelodie in einen überraschenden 6/8-Rhythmus.
Old Scotia, wake thy mountain strain
In all its wildest splendours!
And welcome back the lads again,
Your honour's dear defenders!
Be every harp and viol strung',
Till all the woodlands quaver:
Of many a band your Bards have sung,
But never hail'd a braver.
Refrain
Then raise the pibroch, Donald Bane,
We're all in key to cheer it;
And let it be a martial strain,
That warriors bold may hear it.
Ye lovely maids, pitch high your notes
As virgin voice can sound them,
Sing of your brave, your noble Scots,
For glory kindles round them.
Small is the remnant you will see,
Lamented be the others!
But such a stem of such a tree,
Take to your arms like brothers.
Refrain:
Raise high the pibroch, Donald Bane,
Strike all our glen with wonder;
Let the chanter yell, and the drone notes swell,
Till music speaks in thunder.
What storm can rend your mountain rock,
What wave your headlands shiver?
Long have they stood the tempest's shock,
Thou knowst they will for ever.
Sooner your eye these cliffs shall view
Split by the wind and weather,
Than foeman's eye the bonnet blue
Behind the nodding feather.
Refrain:
O raise the pibroch, Donald Bane,
Our caps to the sky we'll send them.
Scotland, thy honours who can stain,
Thy laurels who can rend them!
Liebe Grüße Peter