Mendelssohn's 6th symphony - comparing a new version

[gprengel]

Hi, I need your help! As you may know I completed Mendelssohn's wonderful fragmentary 6th symphony a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0dFe2nBn_s&t=148s

Now somebody else said I should do a new recording with more reverb and a better mixing. Above all he added from Mendelssohn's sketches a transition to the 2nd theme which I find very cool!

So my question: Which version would you technically prefer and what do you think of that new transition at 02:00ff (and likewise in the recapitulation) and other changes (removing the triples in the violins in the beginning, changes in the Coda, ...)?

gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_1.mp3
gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_1.pdf

Thank you for your help in assessing the versions !

[Peter]

I like the new version very much Gerd - excellent work. I think the bridge passage works well. Do we know why Mendelssohn never completed this work which starts so promisingly?