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Mendelssohn: Transcriptions for Organ

Christoph Schoener (organ of St. Michaelis-Church, Hamburg)

There is no shortage of recent recordings and retrospectives of Mendelssohn’s organ music, but none quite like this. All is fine in conventional stereo, though, and the intricate detail of the...

Mendelssohn: Transcriptions for Organ

Christoph Schoener (organ of St. Michaelis-Church, Hamburg)

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There is no shortage of recent recordings and retrospectives of Mendelssohn’s organ music, but none quite like this. All is fine in conventional stereo, though, and the intricate detail of the...

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A total of four organs group themselves around the listener in three dimensions in St. Michael’s Church in Hamburg, and all four instruments are spectacularly employed on this Super Audio CD. Church music director Christoph Schoener has designed a very special program for the organs in his workplace: music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy that has never been heard before in just this way. Schoener pulls all the stops on the central console and covers a spectrum ranging from the complete late-romantic forces of the entire organ system to the filigree murmuring of individual tone colours. A special treat: a solo for the echo organ installed high above in the ceiling sphere! Highly recommended.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro con fuoco (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length2:25
II. Andante espressivo (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length8:30
I. Allegretto (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length3:19
II. Tranquillo e sempre legato (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length3:44
I. Prestissimo staccato (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length2:34
II. Allegro con brio (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length4:26
I. Con moto (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length4:30
II. Con moto, ma sostenuto (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length6:41
I. Andante lento (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length2:53
II. Allegro con fuoco (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length4:54
I. Maestoso moderato (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length3:26
II: Allegro con brio (Arr. for Organ by Christoph Bossert)
Track length4:08

Awards and reviews

July 2019

There is no shortage of recent recordings and retrospectives of Mendelssohn’s organ music, but none quite like this. All is fine in conventional stereo, though, and the intricate detail of the six Preludes & Fugues for piano can be fully appreciated despite the aural perspective.
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