Mendelssohn: Organ Music

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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) received his main musical education from the famous teacher and composer Carl Friedrich Zelter, who thoroughly schooled him in traditional composition, counterpoint and music history. Zelter was also a great Bach admirer and regularly performed his works at the Berliner Singakademie, of which the Mendelssohn family were also members. It was Zelter who urged the young Mendelssohn to play the organ as well as the piano, and this led to his lifetime relationship with this majestic instrument.
This new recording presents some of Mendelssohn’s best organ works: three of his superb Organ Sonatas Op. 65 (Nos. 3, 4 and 6), as well as some spectacular transcriptions from his Midsummer Night’s Dream (the famous Scherzo) and his oratorio Paulus.
Dutch organist Matthias Havinga plays on the famous 1830 Bätz organ of the Ronde or Koepelkerk in Amsterdam, a magnificent instrument which fits Mendelssohn’s style perfectly, as he professed to like “a strong and powerful organ, where the sound doesn’t shake at all, and is not lacking in various types of lovely soft registers”.
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Artist: Matthias Havinga (organ)
An invaluable single-disc survey of Mendelssohn’s organ music, including not only works originally conceived for the instrument but also arrangements to display the majestic tonal possibilities of a fine Dutch instrument as well as the virtuosity of one of the most talented young organists in the Netherlands.
Bach was a central figure in the musical education of the prodigious young Mendelssohn, and he continued to expand the family’s collection of the Leipzig master’s organ music. However, he was also gifted at the art of improvisation which is central to the organist’s training, and he later wrote out several of his best improvisations as compositions for posterity. His organ music abounds in the elegance and impetuous vitality which characterise his music in general, while his lifelong immersion in the music of Bach is evident in both the counterpoint and the chorale movements to be found throughout his organ sonatas.
Matthias Havinga plays three of the best-known of those sonatas on this album: Op.65 Nos 3, 4 and 6. No.3 concludes in a lovely song without words, a style which he revisited for the Andante tranquillo of No.4. No.6, by contrast, opens with a magnificent set of variations upon the ‘Our Father’ chorale theme Vater unser in Himmelreich, elaborated with such mastery by Bach in the Clavierübung III.
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Tracklist:
Felix Mendelssohn:
Organ Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 65:
00:00:00 I. Con moto maestoso
00:07:57 II. Andante tranquillo
Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op. 61:
00:10:28 I. Scherzo
00:16:55 Andante sostenuto in F Minor
Organ Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 65:
00:21:47 I. Allegro con brio
00:25:24 II. Andante religioso
00:27:26 III. Allegretto
00:31:07 IV. Allegro maestoso e vivace
Organ Sonata No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 65:
00:35:23 I. Choral mit Variationen
00:45:00 II. Fuga
00:47:49 III. Finale - andante
00:50:34 Fuga in E Minor
00:55:13 Allegro in D Minor
Paulus, Op. 36:
01:02:46 I. Ouverture
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@notaire2 3 жыл бұрын

Wunderschöne Interpretation dieser fein komponierten Orgelwerke in verschiedenen Tempi mit ein bisschen chromatischen Tönen der historischen Orgel und mit perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Wahrlich intelligenter und unvergleichlicher Organist!