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Organs from Mendelssohn's Leipzig years

Works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Gade Transcriptions and Improvisations

Martin Schmeding Organ
Rudolf Lutz Organ

CD album cover 'Organs from Mendelssohn's Leipzig years' (GEN 89152) with Martin Schmeding, Rudolf Lutz

GEN 89152 EAN: 4260036251524

22.5.2009Special offer
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It is as though Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy himself were seated at the organ and invoking the sounds of his Paulus oratorio: this is how the new Genuin CD begins, with all tracks recorded on church organs in and around Leipzig. And it is not only because listeners feel themselves being transported back to the time when the composer lived, whose 200th birthday we celebrate this year and who was an inspiration to organists of his day and for generations afterwards: Rolf Lutz and Martin Schmeding paint a many-hued tableau of Mendelssohn's time, performing transcriptions, improvisations and original compositions, as was commonly practiced in the nineteenth century. Encyclopedic variety and admirable consistency—on original organs of Saxony!

"[...] a thematically well thought-out disc which not only introduces Mendelssohn’s music, but also presents the historicism of the 19th century as a phenomenon of its time [...] a CD which is interesting not only for organ fans." (Leipziger Kreuzer 6/2009)

Martin Schmeding Organ
Rudolf Lutz Organ

It is as though Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy himself were seated at the organ and invoking the sounds of his Paulus oratorio: this is how the new Genuin CD begins, with all tracks recorded on church organs in and around Leipzig. And it is not only because listeners feel themselves being transported back to the time when the composer lived, whose 200th birthday we celebrate this year and who was an inspiration to organists of his day and for generations afterwards: Rolf Lutz and Martin Schmeding paint a many-hued tableau of Mendelssohn's time, performing transcriptions, improvisations and original compositions, as was commonly practiced in the nineteenth century. Encyclopedic variety and admirable consistency—on original organs of Saxony!

"[...] a thematically well thought-out disc which not only introduces Mendelssohn’s music, but also presents the historicism of the 19th century as a phenomenon of its time [...] a CD which is interesting not only for organ fans." (Leipziger Kreuzer 6/2009)

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Tracklist

  1. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
    Ouvertüre zum Oratorium "Paulus" op. 36
    Transkriptionen für Orgel von Martin Schmeding
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach
    "Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen"
    Arie mit Chor aus der "Matthäus-Passion" BWV 244
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach
    Choralpräludium "Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott"
    Improvisation von Rudolf Lutz
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach
    Choralpräludium I "Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele"
    Improvisation von Rudolf Lutz
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach
    Choralpräludium II "Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele"
    Improvisation von Rudolf Lutz
  6. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
    Präludium und Fuge c-Moll op. 37/1
    Präludium
  7. Fuge
  8. Rudolf Lutz
    Improvisationen
    Albumblatt
  9. "Der Mond ist aufgegangen"
  10. Klänge aus dem Appenzeller Land
  11. Johann Sebastian Bach
    R. Lutz: Improvisation über Sonate im klassischen Stil nach Motiven des "Actus tragicus"
    Allegretto
  12. Andante cantabile
  13. Rondo. Allegro moderato
  14. Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890)
    Tonstück Nr. 1 F-Dur op. 22/1
    Moderato
  15. Robert Schumann
    Fuge Nr. 1 aus "Sechs Fugen über den Namen BACH" op. 60
    Langsam
  16. Johann Sebastian Bach
    Einleitung zu der Cantate: "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit"
    Orgelbearbeitung von Martin Schmeding nach der Klaviertranskription von Fanny Hensel
  17. Rudolf Lutz
    Improvisation
    Choralbearbeitung über "Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele"
  18. Concerto sopra "Innsbruck, ich muß Dich lassen"
  19. Johann Sebastian Bach
    "Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele" BWV 654
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    "Orgelstück für eine Uhr" (Phantasie) f-Moll KV 608
    Allegro - Andante - [Tempo I]
  21. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
    Sonate d-Moll "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" (autographes Fragment)
    Choral
  22. Con moto poco Allegro
  23. Andante con moto

It is as though Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy himself were seated at the organ and invoking the sounds of his Paulus oratorio: this is how the new Genuin CD begins, with all tracks recorded on church organs in and around Leipzig. And it is not only because listeners feel themselves being transported back to the time when the composer lived, whose 200th birthday we celebrate this year and who was an inspiration to organists of his day and for generations afterwards: Rolf Lutz and Martin Schmeding paint a many-hued tableau of Mendelssohn's time, performing transcriptions, improvisations and original compositions, as was commonly practiced in the nineteenth century. Encyclopedic variety and admirable consistency—on original organs of Saxony!

"[...] a thematically well thought-out disc which not only introduces Mendelssohn’s music, but also presents the historicism of the 19th century as a phenomenon of its time [...] a CD which is interesting not only for organ fans." (Leipziger Kreuzer 6/2009)