Product Description
Felix Mendelssohn's colleagues and contemporaries regarded his six major sonatas as the most significant cycle of organ compositions since the days of Johann Sebastian Bach. They interpreted the sonatas as expressive and dramatic music of a poetic nature, rooted in what a contemporary critic described as their "spiritual dimensions". This perspective differs markedly from the currently dominant view that the sonatas were Baroque-inspired rushes. It challenged me as a musician and performer. Mendelssohn was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the foremost organ virtuosos. The composer played the entire cycle of sonata movements at an informal premiere of the work in Frankfurt in 1845. The sonatas must have been conceived and understood as a large landscaped work of symphonic dimensions, a cycle of six sonatas and eighteen movements. In his choice of instrument for the sonatas, Mendelssohn preferred an organ of Central German style from the latter part of the 18th century. By playing the sonatas on a historical instrument of this kind, characterized by a wealth of widely different characters, transparency, richness of color, sensitivity and response in the timbre, the musician gains completely new experiences.
About the arranger
Fillipe Mendel has been immersed in music since he was a child. Coming from a Portuguese family, he believes that music can and should tell a story and, as such, he is the composer and arranger of over hundreds of religious, classical and contemporary songs. Speaking of stories, he also often writes romantic suspense novels. He currently lives in Brazil, in the state of São Paulo.
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