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Reger - Piano Concerto, Piano Pieces | C-AVI AVI8553306

Reger - Piano Concerto, Piano Pieces

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Label: C-AVI

Cat No: AVI8553306

Barcode: 4260085533060

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 19th April 2019

Contents

Works

Reger, Max

Episoden (Klavierstucke), op.115
» no.1 Andante
» no.2 Andante con moto
» no.3 Allegretto
» no.4 Andante sostenuto
» no.5 Larghetto
Lose Blatter, op.13
» no.12 Choral
Piano Concerto in F minor, op.114

Artists

Markus Becker (piano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie

Conductor

Joshua Weilerstein

Works

Reger, Max

Episoden (Klavierstucke), op.115
» no.1 Andante
» no.2 Andante con moto
» no.3 Allegretto
» no.4 Andante sostenuto
» no.5 Larghetto
Lose Blatter, op.13
» no.12 Choral
Piano Concerto in F minor, op.114

Artists

Markus Becker (piano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie

Conductor

Joshua Weilerstein

About

Renowned Reger specialist Markus Becker presents the first live recording of some of Reger’s most challenging works for piano, including the Piano Concerto, which is heavy, long and extremely difficult and which requires non-stop action by the soloist. Becker is accompanied by the NDR Radiophilharmonie and conductor Joshua Weilerstein.

“I’ve been playing and studying Reger’s piano music for a long time now. In the 1990s, not long after graduation, I recorded his complete works for solo piano. Ever since then, I’ve been featuring Reger frequently in my recitals: not only solo piano pieces, but chamber music including violin, clarinet and cello sonatas, the works for two pianos, piano trios, quartets, and Lieder. Reger composed an impressive quantity of music in almost all genres...

“Of course, I’ve been familiar with the Piano Concerto for a long time, but I only recorded it for the first time live, in January 2017. That is the source for the recording on this CD. To be honest, at first, I had my doubts about this piece. So many notes, all the dense chords, and rapid changes of register -daunting leaps across the keyboard! - along with extreme dynamics (pppp and ffff). ...We already encounter that kind of superabundance elsewhere in Reger, but here he takes it to the extreme.

“The ‘full’ piano is usually playing in tandem with the full orchestra. In our rehearsals, Joshua Weilerstein, the Radio Philharmonic and I were constantly working on trying to achieve the right balance between the orchestra and the piano...”

– Interview with Markus Becker from the booklet

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