An organ recital in progress: part 94

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, today's instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis/Harrison & Harrison organ at Hereford Cathedral.

Today, I present Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Prelude and fugue in G major.


Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) enjoyed a successful career as composer, pianist, organist, and conductor. Novello and Breitkopf & Härtel published his Three preludes and fugues (the Prelude and fugue in G major is second in the set) in the spring of 1837, the set being dedicated to Thomas Attwood (then organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral).



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music