PIECES POUR ORGUE
AUTEUR: BARTHOLDY FELIX MENDELSSOHN 1809-1847
STYLE: Classique
COMMENTAIRE: Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition.
It is a rare stroke of good fortune for musicology when scholarly findings are practically snatched from musicologists' hands by performers. In late 2004, Christian Martin Schmidt, the editorial director of the Mendelssohn Complete Edition, offered some hitherto unpublished pieces to the British organist Jennifer Bate for her complete recording – in anticipation of their release in the Complete Edition. The projected CDs have been issued (by SOMM), along with the three volumes of the Complete Edition, which contain a number of first editions. Now in print is the practical edition of Mendelssohn's organ works. Volume I (EB 8641) follows the layout of the first volume of the Complete Edition and features the well-known works with opus numbers: the "Three Preludes and Fugues" Op. 37 and the "Six Sonatas" op. 65. In Volume 2 (EB 8642), Christian Martin Schmidt has compiled organ works from the other two volumes of the Complete Edition. Some of them are new to musical practice, including some important pieces that are sure to enrich the repertoire.
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