Max Reger's extensive output for unaccompanied violin is considered the most significant ever written in the genre, including numerous sonatas, preludes, and fugues.
Performer Biography
Sayaka Shoji, the violinist on this album, was the first Japanese and youngest artist to win the Paganini Competition in 1999.
Critical Reception
Arnold Schoenberg, a composer not known for academic sympathies, deeply admired Max Reger, placing him on the same level as Brahms and considering both misunderstood innovators.
Instruments
Sayaka Shoji performs on a 1729 'Recamier' Stradivarius violin, which is on loan to her from Dr. Ryuzo Ueno.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Max Reger, a Bavarian post-Romantic composer, considered J.S. Bach to be the 'alpha and omega of all music' and his illustrious model throughout his life.
Composer Biography
Max Reger, who died at 43 from a heart attack, may have unconsciously seen himself as a 'new Kantor' or a modern Bach, even settling and dying in Leipzig, Bach's city.
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