Organs from Mendelssohn's Leipzig Years : Schmeding, R.Lutz (2CD)

Organs from Mendelssohn's Leipzig Years

Mendelssohn / Schmeding: Paulus-Ouverture
Mendelssohn: Praludium & Fuge op. 37 Nr. 1
Mendelssohn: Einleitung zu der Kantate "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" nach der Klaviertranskription von Fanny Hensel
Bach: Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen; Arie mit Chor aus der Matthaus-Passion BWV 244
Bach: Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele
Lutz: Improvisationen uber "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott", "Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele", Albumblatt, "Der Mond ist aufgegangen", Klange aus dem Appenzeller Land
Lutz: Sonate im klassischen Stil nach Motiven des "Actus tragicus" von J.S.Bach
Lutz: Concerto sopra "Innsbruck, ich mus dich lassen"
Lutz: Sonate d-moll uber "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden"
Gade: Tonstuck Nr. 1
Schumann: Fuge Nr. 1 aus "Sechs Fugen uber den Namen BACH"
Mozart: Orgelstuck fur eine Uhr KV 608

Rudolf Lutz & Martin Schmeding
Bach-Orgel Thomaskirche Leipzig
Silbermann-Orgel St. Georgenkirche Rotha
Schweinefleisch-Orgel Auferstehungskirche Leipzig-Mockern
Sauer-Orgel Thomaskirche Leipzig

Digital Recording: 2008

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! ( GENUIN )