The programme notes are comprehensive and excellent, with English and German on opposing pages, and with details and specifications of the organs given at the end of the notes for each CD. Part 1 is a set of essays in defense of Reger's Beitrage zur Modula- tionslehre (Leipzig: C. F. Kahnt, 1903). After time in Weiden and Munich he moved to Leipzig as musical director at the Leipzig University Church, professor at the Leipzig Royal Conservatory and, later, as music director to the court of Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and the Meiningen Court Theatre. Dissonant triple stops (E-C-Eflat). In 1911 he was invited by the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen to become conductor of the court orchestra, an ensemble established by Hans von Bülow and once conducted by Richard Strauss, at the outset of his career. Let's hear the virtuosic Glenn Gould play them on Vialma!
Reger embarked on a series of works for solo cello, a process of 'musical chastity', as he put it, designed to focus his resources. Piece: solo cello work by Perle. They represent Regers first organ character pieces. The collectors box (128x182x49mm) contains the 17 SACDs together with a detailed 172-page booklet with 60 coloured illustrations in German and English. The movement proves to be a construct in free sonata-form, with a recapitulation and a compacting of motifs which, despite its apparent simplicity (double stops are only seldom necessary), is all Reger, not only in terms of modulation but also in the structuring of melody. Berlin, November 9, 1989. And, to do justice to the organs, and the music, you need a volume setting that will cope with both. Fragility and Intimacy. As the first collection of the composer's writings translated into English, The Selected. Intermezzo e Danza Finale - a Jota. The fact that 2016, the centenary of Reger's death also marks the 100th anniversary of the first publication of the Acht geistliche Gesänge, is just one of many reasons to discover the "late" style of this composer, who left us all too soon. The final work on the disc is the popular Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 'St Anne', another truly wonderful organ work, Reger made two arrangements of this piece, the other for solo piano. Paul Hindemith: Sonata for solo cello (1923). This Suite was popularized by the great cellist János Starker.
The other three works on this set are all transcriptions of Bach's organ pieces, and I suppose the obvious place to start is the now infamous Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565. Returns to the beginning material at the end in a piano dynamic. Max Reger: Suite No. 1 in F Major, BWV1046 [19:19]. A quasi vivace second subject is introduced into this double fugue, duly allowing the chromatic first subject to join with it in a triumphant return, leading to the final ffff, Adagissimo ending. And what could have been more appropriate than to return to the "beginning and end of all music, " as Reger never tired of pointing out throughout his life - to Bach?
Even the Prelude opening the Suite No. From grandiose organ music to majestic vocal scores and delicate chamber music, Bach wrote over 1, 000 masterpieces in his lifetime and hasn't aged a bit since. Adagio rubato: Dotted rhythms pervade through the movement. Opulent and festive, his revamped masterpiece celebrates the three days of Christmas, the New Year, the first Sunday of the year and the Epiphany.
Many double and triple stops. Military service, which affected Regers health and spirits, was followed by a period at home with his parents in Weiden and a continuing series of compositions, in particular for the organ, including a monumental series of chorale fantasias and other compositions, often, it seems, designed to challenge the technique of his friend Karl Straube, a noted performer of Regers organ music. These transcriptions are, therefore, a labour of love, with the result being something quite wonderful. Max Reger owed his earlier interest in music to the example and enthusiasm of his father, a schoolmaster and amateur musician, and his early training to the town organist of Weiden, Adalbert Lindner. The first movement of the Concerto no. Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582 [12:56]. This new release featuring the PianoDuo Takahashi|Lehmann presents rare repertoire for piano duo: the complete recording of Reger's arrangements of the Brandenburg Concertos as well as other works by J. S. Bach. The Fugue, with a subject already foreshadowed in the Fantasia, opens marked pppp, growing slightly louder as the pedal states the fifth entry. The esteem in which his organ compositions were held even in his own time owed much to the advocacy of Karl Straube, also a pupil of Riemann and from 1902 organist at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.
There are many recordings of Reger on modern instruments but, however impressive they might sound, to hear Reger on these German romantic/symphonic organs is a revelation. Among his notable students were Adolf Schiffer (teacher of János Starker). Henze made an international reputation as a composer for the theatre, contriving to renew the genre in ways which are often as startlingly innovative as they are disarmingly simple. He is prolific in the extreme, uniquely so for a contemporary composer, in a variety of genres. He avoids the temptation of imposing too much of his own musical personality on the music, allowing Reger to be in the forefront. Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750). The CDs each contain three different versions of the recordings: normal one-dimensional stereo, two-dimensional SACD multichannel surround sound, and three-dimensional 3D artificial head binaural-stereo, the latter intended for headphone listening with the extraordinarily expense hd-klassik Headphone Optimiser. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. Otakar Ševčík: 40 Variations for solo cello, Op. The first CD includes some of his most dramatic and mature symphonic pieces: the Fantasy and Fugue on BACH, Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor, Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue, and the Second Sonata in D minor. Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248. The Suite consists of three dance movements.
To be sure, there are still monumental works for organ and large orchestral pieces (think of his Piano Concerto Op. Up until then, Reger had concentrated on transcribing Bach's organ music, but agreed, with the resulting edition selling out within two years and needing to be re- published. "Musically I cannot but think polyphonically", Reger is said to have once remarked, and thus the fugue of the First Suite shows the master at work. Each programme has been specially geared toward the organ used, and only one CD uses more than one organ (CD 13, with three organs). After this the briefest of scherzos provides a chattering and almost inane interlude.
Quick changes between pizzicato and arco. Those who know Reger's organ works are accustomed to seeing, from a distance, pages of music which look as if they are black – so many notes, dynamic markings and accidentals appear on every single page. Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 'St Anne' [13:26]. But this is no reason not to invest, and it will be a real investment, in this excellent recording, especially as it retails for little more than the price of a single CD. 5 in D major, BWV1050 [21:36]. P. ix) and to "call attention to the fact that he was an active player in a game that mattered very much" (p. xii).
To the detailed counterpoint of Bach, he added the structural integrity of Beethoven and Brahms and the advanced harmonic language of Wagner and Liszt. Outwardly, however, the impression is more random, a pageant of rhapsody and change, of sudden contrasts and pensive reflections, all exquisitely detailed in rhythm, phrasing, inflection and dynamics. Musik-Zeitung (4 October 1906). If I couldn't, three times a day, Be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, In my anguish I would turn into a shrivelled-up roast goat!
The "Wall of Shame", which was erected in 1961 to separate East and West is "falling", destroyed piece by piece by Germans determined to change the course of history. These are also recorded on CD. The music of Max Reger has a special position in organ repertoire, and he is regarded by many as the greatest German composer of organ music since Bach. All the more striking is the contrast between these works and the works which he composed in the last years of his, sadly, all too brief life. Other "chorales" based on sacred hymns are composed for double choir and still they never sound weighty, rather intimate and modest. We hope this is what you were looking for to help progress with the crossword or puzzle you're struggling with!
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