IDAGIO | Max Reger - Orchestral Edition - Variations, Suites, Romances 00028947999966

Featuring

Gerd Albrecht
Uroš Lajovic
Hans Maile
Horst Stein
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Bamberger Symphoniker

Max Reger

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Composer Biography

Max Reger's orchestral output is difficult to categorize because he disregarded stylistic or generic boundaries, creating a distinctive musical language from various models.

Compositional Technique

The Romantic Suite op. 125 is an example of German Impressionism, combining elements of Debussy, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and motifs based on the notes B-A-C-H.

Recording & Production

This album is a compilation of recordings, co-produced with RIAS Berlin (licensed by Deutschlandradio) and BR-KLASSIK, made between 1980 and 1993.

Compositional Technique

Reger's Hiller Variations op. 100 break down the theme into blocks, serving as material for character pieces that follow an improvisatory impulse.

Composition History

Reger's Symphonic Prologue op. 108, composed two years before his Piano Concerto, depicts an inner drama of despair, rebellion, and submission rather than a specific tragedy.

Composer's Artistic Vision

In his larger orchestral works, Reger applied an ideal developed in his chamber music, where all voices are treated equally and participate in the motivic writing.

Composition History

Reger's early orchestral works, two Violin Romances op. 50 and a Scherzino WoO I/6, were written while he was in Weiden, a remote enclave in the Upper Palatinate.