Mendelssohn by Wouter Van den Broek

[Pierre Lauwers]

A stunning performance, maybe the best Mendelssohn on Youtube,
on a magnificent organ visited and appreciated by Cavaillé-Coll (the Witte-Bätz organ
of the oude kerk, Delft, NL):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1Sy1Qiof4

Best wishes,
Pierre

[AnOrganCornucopia]

What a wonderful instrument - sounds quite like a Cavaillé-Coll in the richness of its fonds and the power of its reeds - though the flue choruses and mutations (as well as the Crumhorn - spelling?) are more Baroque than C-C. Was it Christian Gottlieb Friedrich Witte (as the church website calls him) who influenced Cavaillé-Coll or was it the other way round, given how C-C employed and influenced so many Germans (Gern, Walcker, Sauer, Reinburg and so on)?