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Reger: Organ Works
Max Reger

Goode, Symphony Organ, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Reger: Organ Works

Price: € 25.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212032923
Catnr: SIGCD 329
Release date: 01 May 2013
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212032923
Catalogue number
SIGCD 329
Release date
01 May 2013
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About the album

The two major organ works on these discs (his longest for organ) show Max Reger at the height of his powers; not only do they sustain a structural coherence over an impressive span, but they show an almost inexhaustible proliferation of invention. As well as the large-scale Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme and the Introduction Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor, this 2CD set includes a collection shorter preludes and fugues - the Five Easy Preludes and Fugues and two transcriptions of preludes and fugues by JS Bach from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

De belangrijkste orgelwerken van Reger
De twee belangrijke orgelwerken van Max Reger op dit dubbelalbum (zijn langste orgelwerken) tonen de componist op het hoogtepunt van zijn kunnen; ze behouden niet alleen een structurele samenhang over een indrukwekkende reikwijdte, maar tonen ook een haast onvermoeibare vindingrijkheid.

De Introductie, Variaties en Fuga op een Origineel Thema Opus 73 in de ongebruikelijke toonsoort fis klein werd gecomponeerd in 1903. Het werk staat bekend om zijn toon van melancholisch lyrisme en het gebruik van een gewaagde en bijna impressionistische chromatiek terwijl de diepzinnigheid behouden blijft.

De Introductie, Passacaglia en Fuga Opus 127 stamt uit de laatste periode in Regers leven, toen hij steeds vaker de neoklassieke stijl in zijn werken opnam, wat schraler contrapunt en meer doorschijnende texturen inhoudt.

Naast deze grootschalige werken bevat het dubbelalbum een aantal kortere preludes en fuga’s: de 5 leicht ausführbare Präludien und Fugen Opus 56 en twee transcripties van preludes en fuga’s uit Das Wohltemperierte Klavier van Johann Sebastian Bach.

Artist(s)

David Goode (organ)

David Goode is one of the UK’s leading organists. He was organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge and Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford, and was for 17 years Organist at Eton College. He is now a busy freelance recitalist, accompanist, continuo player and teacher. He has performed frequently as a soloist at the Proms (including a solo recital in 2006 and being a featured artist in 2011), the Royal Festival Hall (including the re-opening concert in 2014) and Symphony Hall Birmingham, and has toured extensively abroad with concerts throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Notable partnerships over the years include the BBCNOW, the BBC Singers and the trumpeter Alison Balsom. His most recent live solo recital for BBC...
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David Goode is one of the UK’s leading organists. He was organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge and Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford, and was for 17 years Organist at Eton College. He is now a busy freelance recitalist, accompanist, continuo player and teacher.

He has performed frequently as a soloist at the Proms (including a solo recital in 2006 and being a featured artist in 2011), the Royal Festival Hall (including the re-opening concert in 2014) and Symphony Hall Birmingham, and has toured extensively abroad with concerts throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Notable partnerships over the years include the BBCNOW, the BBC Singers and the trumpeter Alison Balsom. His most recent live solo recital for BBC Radio 3 was in 2019.

Amongst many recordings across 30 years, he recently released a much-admired set of the complete organ works of Bach for Signum Records (“This series is notable for the flair, clarity and

spontaneity that Goode brings to this timeless music” Gramophone; ***** 5 Stars BBC Music Magazine). His various Reger recordings have also been warmly received, and more recent projects have included music by John Pickard for BIS (‘magnificently assured and enviably concentrated’, Gramophone) and works by Locklair with the choir of Royal Holloway for Convivium Records.

A distinguished teacher over many years, he was on the jury for the 2017 St Alban’s International Competition. He has composed extensively, with recordings including those by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge; his Blitz Requiem was premiered at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2013.


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Composer(s)

Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the universityuntil 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on...
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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the universityuntil 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on one of these trips of a heart attack at age 43.
He had also been active internationally as a conductor and pianist. Among his students were Joseph Haas, Sándor Jemnitz, Jaroslav Kvapil, Ruben Liljefors, George Szell and Cristòfor Taltabull.
Reger was the cousin of Hans von Koessler.

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Disc #1
01.
Introduction, Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 73: Introduction
06:53
02.
Introduction, Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 73: Variations
23:59
03.
Introduction, Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 73: Fugue
05:17
04.
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor, Op. 127: Introduction
05:14
05.
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor, Op. 127: Passacaglia
15:49
06.
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor, Op. 127: Fugue
10:38

Disc #2
01.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 1 in E major Prelude
06:09
02.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 1 in E major Fugue
03:54
03.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 2 in D minor Prelude
03:18
04.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 2 in D minor Fugue
02:53
05.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 3 in G major Prelude
05:03
06.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 3 in G major Fugue
05:50
07.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 4 in C major Prelude
03:42
08.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 4 in C major Fugue
02:37
09.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 5 in B minor Prelude
06:23
10.
Five Easy Preludes and Fugues, Op. 56: No. 5 in B minor Fugue
05:08
11.
Prelude and Fugue in G major (Book II, Well-Tempered Clavier): Prelude
03:14
12.
Prelude and Fugue in G major (Book II, Well-Tempered Clavier): Fugue
01:35
13.
Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor (Book I, Well-Tempered Clavier): Prelude
03:50
14.
Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor (Book I, Well-Tempered Clavier): Fugue
05:59
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