Bernhard Schneider - Patrick Schönbach: Hommage à Max Reger für Orgel (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. I. Fantasie
02. II. Thema mit Variationen - Thema, Zart und mit aeusserster Innigkeit
03. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation I, L'istesso tempo
04. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation II, Ruhig fliessend, ohne zu eilen
05. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation III, Andante quasi improvisando
06. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation IV, Allegretto con spirito
07. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation V, Adagio molto espressivo
08. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation VI, Rasch und fluechtig
09. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation VII, Nicht eilen
10. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation VIII, Allegro con fuoco
11. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation IX (Kanon), Adagio
12. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation X, Mit Leidenschaft
13. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation XI, Vivace
14. II. Thema mit Variationen - Variation XII, In der Art eines feierlichen Chorals
15. III. Fuge


A tribute to another musician as an expression of one’s own artistic personality Max Reger (1873-1916) was a child of his conflictual times; despite his hardearned position as the leading German composer of his day alongside Richard Strauss, he remained an outsider. Many of his works were – and still are – formidable musical and technical challenges for any performer. Reger came to widespread attention in May of 1904, when the première of his Violin Sonata in C Major Op. 72 at the Assembly of the German Music Society in Frankfurt caused a scandal; he dressed down unwelcome critics with quasi-hidden references to them as “sheep” or “apes”. From then on he became omnipresent on the German music scene, tirelessly performing his own works in public. Today, however, in spite of a great number of efforts (including the annual Max-Reger-Tage in Weiden), Reger’s music only plays a minor role in concert life.

For unjustly forgotten or at least somewhat neglected composers, an anniversary offers a good occasion to deal with the person and the work (even) more intensely than usual. 2016 was a good year for the legacy of Reger: eulogies were held all over Germany, and a great number of performances took place (the Max Reger Institute noted over 1,300 concerts that year with works by Reger). Moreover, several contemporary composers rose to the occasion and interacted with his music.

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