Name: Mendelssohn: The Six Organ Sonatas - Benjamin Righetti
SKU: 7619931161525

Mendelssohn: The Six Organ Sonatas – Benjamin Righetti

Organ Sonata Op. 65, No. 1 in F Minor
Organ Sonata Op. 65, No. 2 in C Minor
Organ Sonata Op. 65, No. 3 in A Major
Organ Sonata Op. 65, No. 4 in B-Flat Major
Organ Sonata Op. 65, No.5 in D Major
Organ Sonata Op. 65, No.6 in D Minor

Benjamin Righetti

Reference: 0001615CD
Barcode: 7619931161525
Length: 1:15:09
Label: Claves

Format: 1 CD

Release date: 2/12/2016

UGS : 7619931161525 Catégories : CD, Classique

20,60€

in Choir & Organ (Jan, 2017)
This complete recording of the Mendelssohn Sonatas is valuable for the early 19th-century German organ colours that Benjamin Righetti has chosen, quite different from contemporaneous English sounds. Righetti plays well and with imagi- native registrations on the 60-stop 1834 organ, although occasionally he is pedantic, as in the opening of no.6; but elsewhere he has command both for musical detail and long-range structure. In the booklet, Righetti has written an essay beginning ‘Why produce a CD…?’, in a pseudo-philosophical manner, but some information about Mendelssohn, the sonatas and the organ would have been more interesting and relevant. …