Max Reger - Orchestral Edition - Concertos, Sinfonietta
6/29/2018, 22 Tracks, 3:43:37
Featuring
Horst Stein
Walter Forchert
Marie-Luise Neunecker
Gerhard Oppitz
Bamberger Symphoniker
Max Reger
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Critical Reception
Arnold Schoenberg admired Reger's Violin Concerto op. 101 for its 'prose-like melodies' and 'familiarity with note-relationships that recalls Bach,' yet few violinists championed it.
Composer Biography
Reger's early orchestral works, like the Scherzino WoO I/6, were composed for an amateur orchestra and reveal his sense of humor by challenging the horn player.
Composition History
The fragmentary Andante and Rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra, left unfinished at Reger's death, was completed and renamed by American violinist and composer Florizel von Reuter.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Reger considered his Piano Concerto op. 114, composed in the same year as Schoenberg's first atonal work, as 'a kind of Brahms D minor Concerto translated into the language of modernism'.
Compositional Technique
Reger's Sinfonietta op. 90, written in Munich, opposed the symphonic poems of his colleagues by adopting a four-movement symphonic design with chamber textures writ large.
Compositional Technique
In his Meiningen period, Reger's Concerto in the Olden Style op. 123 referenced the Baroque concerto grosso while also foreshadowing the 1920s.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Max Reger's orchestral works defy easy categorization, as he disregarded stylistic or generic boundaries to create a distinctive musical language.
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