MENDELSSOHN: Organ Music, Matthias Havinga [CD de audio] Matthias Havinga (organ) and Felix Mendelssohn

Product description

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) : Sonate en la majeur, op. 65 n° 3 - "Ein Sommernachtstraum", op. 61 - Sonate in B flat majeur, op. 65 n° 4 - Sonate in ré mineur, op. 65 no. 6 - "Paulus", op. 36 (trans. from WT Best) / Matthias Havinga, orgue [Bätz-organ, 1830, Eglise Ronde Lutherse Kerk, Amsterdam]

Opinion

Mendelssohn's organ sonatas require tons of panache - which is what we have here. Phrasing could be a bit more expansive, but registrations are beautifully selected and faster movements pack a punch. (OC) * * * * -- BBC Music Magazine

MENDELSSOHN: ORGAN MUSIC Matthias Havinga, Koepelkerk, Amsterdam Brilliant.Classics 95658 [71:04] * * * The re is no shortage of recordings of Mendelssohn's sonatas, so perhaps what makes any new disc stand out is the accompanying repertoire. Here, alongside Sonatas 3, 4 and 6, we have three other organ compositions together with the WT Best transcription of the Overture from Paulus and a (slightly ponderous) Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Matthias Havinga proposes that the 1830 Batz organ in Amsterdam would suit Mendelssohn's desire for an organ to be 'very strong and powerful. Indeed it is, but it does not have the most enchanting Plenum, and this only exacerbates having a slavish adherence to the composer's markings as articulation rather than general phrasing - something which I fmd at odds with an otherwise lyrical composer. -- Choir and Organ Magazine