Livia Mazzanti - Francesco Finotti | Mendelssohn in Rome
Livia Mazzanti - Francesco Finotti | Mendelssohn a Roma

code: AYCD-200902

total duration: 54'44"

year: 2009

available formats: CD - MP3

 

 

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FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY

Organ works

Sonata III in A major, op. 65 No. 3 *
1. Con moto maestoso 6:37
2. Andante tranquillo 4:18

Sonata II in C minor, op. 65 No. 2 **
3. Grave - Adagio 4:47
4. Allegro maestoso e vivace 1:43
5. FUGA. Allegro moderato 2:51

Prelude and Fugue in C minor, op. 37 No. 1 *
6. Vivace 4:21
7. Con moto 3:14

Sonata V in D major, op. 65 No. 5 **
8 Andante 1:00
9. Andante con moto 2:17
10. Allegro maestoso 4:20

Sonata VI in D minor, op. 65 No. 6 *
11.
CHORAL - Andante sostenuto - Allegro molto
 9:35
12. FUGA. Sostenuto e legato
 2:23
13. FINALE. Andante
 6:46

LIVIA MAZZANTI (*)
FRANCESCO FINOTTI (**)

at the Steinmeyer Organ of the Christuskirche in Rome

Live recording

 

An excellent virtuoso, a profound connoisseur of the instrument and its literature, a devotee of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and therefore of the instrument which was the symbol of the great Kantor of Lipsia, Mendelssohn dedicates pages of a luminous expressive intensity and not rarely of an impressive modernity to the organ (observe the symphonic gait of certain exalting episodes, but also the intimate and absorbed atmosphere of certain slow movements, which are moving and full of pathos in the introverted manner which suits him most). These pages assume, in the context of the nineteenth century to which they belong, the value of a true foundation in order to become, following the long silent interval (almost three quarters of a century of absence of the organ from great European music between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries) a model and stimulus for the creation of the more recent repertory.

The six Sonatas and the series of the three Preludes and Fugues therefore condense the whole chapter of Mendelssohn's compositions for the organ and inaugurate a very fertile season, even if it is less apparent within Romantic musical experience as a whole, acting as an ideal passage between the age of Bach and the new frontiers of modern compositional thought that, commencing from the second half of the nineteenth century, began to entrust to the organ undertakings at least on a level with the symphonic and orchestral ones of the same age.


(from the comment by Daniela Margoni Tortora)

 

Production: Associazione Culturale «Super Flumina»
Recording location and date: Christuskirche, Rome, 20 & 22 October 2009
Sound recording, editing and mastering: Peter Dimpflmeier & Massimo Galli
Cover art: Massimo Staich
Cover & Typography: Massimo Galli