Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): Dritte Orgelsonate in A-Dur op. 65 Nr. 3 Con moto maestoso - Andante tranquillo (7:51) Bernhard Schneider an der Klais-Orgel von St. Aegidien, Braunschweig
Magnifique. Beaucoup de vie, de lumière dans cet enregistrement. Le tempo est parfait. Quelle belle harmonie ! Merci Herr Schneider, Sie sind ein " SUPER " Organist. Ich wohne in Frankreich une bin Organist in Paris.
Wonderful to hear this Mendelssohn sonata again. When I was in undergrad school I learned this one and the No. 4 in B-Flat (my favorite). Such good memories. Thank you. 👏👍❤️
sorry lol, i just happened to be listening to this again and scrolled down to see that I had (accidentally) disliked this comment haha... apologies for that, I have no idea how that happened, there is nothing to dislike here!!
Very good! Whoever may dislike this reading?? I think that youtube should forbid to put dislikes if not supported by a comment. Then we would discover that most dislikes depend on the total ignorance and stupidity of incapable people.
Note for not perfect. But tempo lacked emotion. Human emotion is on a certiain frequency. The organist must latch on to that frequency and pull us along!
That expressly indicated accelerando in the B-section should proceed "bis geht nicht mehr." So: wild abandon. (??.... my opinion, of course.). The ultra-Romantic ideal of a return to "The Garden" (capital T and G), that is: before "original sin" calls for it. Justifies it, after all the "aus tiefer Not" moments we Sapiens must (often inexplicably) go through before we may become a real woman or a real man. Such is our mortal existence. Plus, an abundance of instances within Felix's oeuvre demonstrate how our supposed "gentle genius" was quite capable of ecstatic joy. So why not take it to the maximum- allowed, under F's own constraints of good taste of course? Demonstrate thru Music that indeed "there is a time for every purpose under heaven" for every pair of contrasting emotions." (Credit Ecclesiastes, "The Preacher," for that wise insight into the downsides of every human life.) And so, with the reprise of the A-section....I'd say almost "gross" in one last affirmation of those happy endings, which The Son of Man AND Son of God promised upon conditions of not irremediably crossing over to the dark side. (Thinking of Judas, Herod's lovely wife, and the pounders of the letter of the law who had nothing better to do than plot "how to kill him" when He, Jesus, was out doing good on a sabbath day. Felix unhypocritically believed this, Christ's message, if anyone ever did. I think I just talked myself into learning #3 after wrongly thinking sonatas 2 and 6 were enough. Enough, amid the vast, varied, too-frequent-for-one- lifetime peaks within all the compositions for organ coming down to us for over 6 centuries now. Felix! If a name implies destiny, . here we clearly see it in a work whose purpose is onviously is to witness to life's joys--to the eventual triumph of joy over against our patches of "out of the depths I cry to Thee."
