Mendelssohn: 6 Organ Sonatas, Op. 65

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Release Date: 4th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: LRCD-1166
Label: Loft
Length: 79 minutes

Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 65 No. 1

Work length17:17

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Hans Davidsson (organ)

I. Allegro moderato e serioso

Track length6:22

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II. Adagio

Track length2:52

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III. Andante recitativo

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IV. Allegro assai vivace

Track length3:56

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Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor, Op. 65 No. 2

Work length10:59

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Hans Davidsson (organ)

I. Grave - II. Adagio

Track length4:40

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III. Allegro maestoso e vivace - IV. Fuga. Allegro moderato

Track length6:19

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Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 65 No. 3, MWV W 58

Work length10:54

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Hans Davidsson (organ)

I. Con moto maestoso

Track length7:49

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II. Andante tranquillo

Track length3:05

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Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 65 No. 4, MWV W 59

Work length14:20

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Hans Davidsson (organ)

I. Allegro con brio

Track length3:48

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II. Andante religioso

Track length2:27

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III. Allegretto

Track length3:35

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IV. Allegro maestoso e vivace

Track length4:30

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Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 65 No. 5, MWV W 60

Work length9:11

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Hans Davidsson (organ)

Ia. Andante

Track length1:26

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Ib. Andante con moto

Track length2:47

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II. Allegro maestoso

Track length4:58

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Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 6 in D Major, Op. 65 No. 6, MWV W 61

Work length16:42

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Hans Davidsson (organ)

I. Chorale. Andante sostenuto - Allegro molto

Track length10:18

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II. Fuga. Sostenuto e legato

Track length3:09

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III. Finale. Andante

Track length3:15

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Felix Mendelssohn’s colleagues and contemporaries regarded the grand sonatas as the most important cycle of organ compositions since the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. They interpreted the expressive and dramatic movements of the Sonatas with poetic meaning, based on what a contemporary critic called their spiritual dimensions. This viewpoint challenges the common contemporary understanding and interpretation of these works. Widely considered one of the greatest organ virtuosi of his time, Mendelssohn played the cycle as a whole at an informal premier in Frankfurt in 1845. Conceived and perceived as a single large-scale work, the Sonatas seem to have a symphonic scope. Yet, eighteenth-century central German organs were Mendelssohn’s preferred style. The descriptions of Mendelssohn’s sensitive touch, differentiated articulation, brilliant technique, and expressive playing, as well as his original metronome indications, inspire us to take a fresh approach to the Sonatas. In recent years, Hans Davidsson’s studies of the Sonatas and early nineteenth-century performance have brought new perspectives to our understanding of these works. Traditionally the individual Sonatas might be “authentically” played as single, separate pieces on a German Romantic organ, contemporaneous with Mendelssohn’s lifetime. Instead, Davidsson has chosen to play the complete eighteen-movement cycle on an early nineteenth-century organ, an instrument with unique character, sensitivity, transparency, and rich color. For the performer, this instrument brings new interpretive possibilities to the Sonata cycle, based on what is known about Mendelssohn’s own performances. For the listener, these new interpretations are given voice on one of the best preserved historical organs in northern Europe- the instrument built for the church in Gammalkil, Sweden, by Pehr Schiorlin in 1806.

Mendelssohn: 6 Organ Sonatas, Op. 65

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