Mendelssohn Organ Sonata #3 In A Major (Movement 1)

[miltronix]

You register it differently than me, but what a grand effect! I am most impressed with the reed stops on this organ. Great performance... thanks!

[organist1982]

@miltronix

Oh, gosh, I'd probably register it differently now, but thank you! If only that room had more acoustic...

[shemiska]

Bravo! organist1982. indeed, a very nice performance.

[organist1982]

@shemiska

Thank you!! (I was accidentally signed in as someone else when I tried to respond a moment ago)

[Pyporrel1]

Very lovely performance! Personally I would increase the tempo in the beginning slightly. With regards to registration: I must agree that the harsh mixtures is a bit overwhelming for Mendelssohn - it is however my understanding that this organ does not really allow for a more sympathetic mixture use. I do not like the overall sound of the organ, but you have done very good on the instrument. Overall 8.5/10 from me. Well done!

[juzzyfuzz]

Well done, organist1982!

[1401JSC]

What a tinny sound!

Mendelssohn's organs were much less mixture-based.

Rather slow for 1/4 = 72 at the beginning.

your fugue phrasing doesn't correspond to my score. Have we the same edition? (Peters, in which Felix speaks about registration in his preface).

[TreblRebl]

how about a nice big, overflowing cup of shut the fuck up?

[organist12345]

I hear SOOOO many romantic pieces such as mendelssohn played on organs using shrill and harsh mixtures, and no reeds. If i were faced with such an organ. I wouldnt use most of the reeds avaliable, and aybe only 1 mixture in the swell

[Heyde1979]

nice pipe organ what company built it you play this piece very well

[organist1982]

Thank you! George Bozeman built the organ. I think it was completed in 1999. Tracker action, electric couplers.

[Heyde1979]

your welcome

[okamilune]

@organist1982 wow! i didn't know they did tracker consoles that far from the pipes! that is awesome to know, thank you.

[bahamut35]

it is exactly the legato that i search!!

[RUBYRILEY2]

perfect tempo . lots of others race thru this piece but youve got it just right. the rubatos are a model for other organists to learn from. the long phrases and sense of line are so well done excellent.

[darn2]

Lovely performance from which I have much to learn. With regards the comment made by 'organman52', this comment is an ideal example of the kind of criticism despised by most musicians, unnecessary and linguistically distasteful. I might venture that you are probably regarded as a 'bollox', or at least ought to be.

[pianoman20]

Jackie Onasis Kennedy also walked into this movement for her wedding.

[ettanbettan]

Many years ago I heard Fanny's wedding march in a concert in Gothenburg. Now I've been looking for it everywhere, since I'd like to have it for my own wedding this fall. If anyone knows anything about where to find the music/notes I'd be very grateful!

[Uraia]

The 'real' wedding march for his beloved sister Fanny!!! :D good job!!!

[palmerac]

A nice performance. I'm curious to know more about Uraia's reference to Fanny. The opening and closing section of this movement ARE perfect for a wedding processional, but my understanding was that Felix was too ill to compose anything for Fanny's wedding (so she wrote something on her own).

[Uraia]

That's right, Palmerac: Fanny wrote on her own, but his great brother, stopped and ill in England from a carriage accident in september 1829, had just written a wedding piece. Some years later he revisioned the music and it became the IIIrd organ sonata (You can find some details by Robin Langley in the booklet of Mendelssohn Music for Organ Cd played by John Scott in St Paul's Cathedral) ;)

[gmcausland]

Lovely performance. You gave that piece dignity and breath of space. Thank-you.