This week we focus on the music of a composer who was revolutionary while still honoring and protecting the past.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
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Title: War March of the Priests
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Mary Gifford
Album: The Lyon Roars Giffitz – GR 6809
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Organ: IV/57 Lyon and Healy Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sheetmusic: PDF
Title: Prelude and Fugue in C minor, op. 37 no. 1
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Rhonda Sider Edgington
Album: Subtlety and Sparkle
Organ: II/20 Wahl Augustana Lutheran Church, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Title: Scherzo from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Thomas Trotter
Album: The Grand Organ of Birmingham Town Hall Hyperion – CDA66216
Organ: V/112 Hill/Mander Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England
Sheetmusic: PDF
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Title: Sonata in A, op. 65 no. 3
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Marilyn Keiser
Album: The people respond – Amen! Pro Organo – CD 7025
Organ: IV/74 Visser-Rowland First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Sheetmusic: PDF
Title: Andante in F major
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: James Hammann
Album: The Mendelssohn Organ Raven – OAR 500
Organ: II/36 Stumm St. Ulrich Church, Neckargem, Germany
Title: Sonata no. 1 In F minor, op. 65
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Jack Mitchener
Album: Romantic to Modern Raven – OAR-958
Organ: III/78 CB Fisk Oberlin College, Finney Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
Sheetmusic: PDF
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Title: Sonata no. 5 in D major – I. Andante
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Stephen Tharp
Album: Mendelssohn Organ Sonatas Naxos – 8.553583
Organ: II/27 Casavant St. Clement Church, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sheetmusic: PDF
Title: Prelude in D minor, op. 37 no. 3
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Organist: Lois Regestein
Album: An Appleton Anthology Raven – OAR 600
Organ: II/16 Appleton/David E Wallace St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth, Maine, USA
Sheetmusic: PDF