Max Reger - Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 57
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- Max Reger - Symphonic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 57 (1901)
Performed by Roberto Marini
Fantasia - 0:00
Fugue - 13:36
Source of Audio - • Max Reger: Symphonisch...
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This piece is pure genius. I’ve never heard anything quite like it.
Reger’s Op. 46 too - it’s hard to believe that a mere mortal could create pieces of such magnitude.
Paul Hindemith called Reger "The last giant of music."
After hearing this stupendous, gargantuan opus, one is not surprised that Max died at 43 - leaving behind 1,000 works of stunning music. Can you even begin to imagine what he might have produced had he lived to 90?!
Reger creates not just musical worlds, but entire universes....
I'm sure he would have written some stellar Symphonies.. although he did write his Sinfonietta which is a full fledged Symphony by "normal" Standards, but Max wasn't a normal Composer of course.
Reger wasn't that prolific. His opus count ends at 147. While Reger's arguably one of the rawest classical composers to have ever lived, and while I agree with everything else about your assessment, you're off by just one degree of magnitude.
Reger's goal was to modulate a 100 times in one measure. 😂
@@joshscores3360 You're wrong, Reger composed more than 1000 works! Alone under the Opus No. 131 You'll find some 15 to 20 full chamber music works.
Ah, but the question remains, can he create a melody?
This is ultimate brilliance between composer and organist. A tour de force unmatched by most and is to be aspired to.
The opening chord. 🪦⚰️💀 Love it!!
That beginning chord freaked me out
I think it's supposed to ^^
🦇
FR
Had I known Max, I would have tried to get him healthier so that he would have lived longer than 43 years. Imagine what might have come next!
Absolutely! A Set of Symphonies and that he could have finished his Latin Requiem.
What health problems did Reger have?
Overeating, heavy drinking, chainsmoking, working like a maniac @@schrysafis
excellent discovery, this is it, keep supporting Reger
What the hell did I just hear? The guy was f-ing nuts but in a good way. He obviously loved freaking people out.
Stunning composition, stunning performance. Having followed it through in the score note by note, I now see that Messiaen's music is a doddle in comparison - sight-readable, almost!
This piece is so German, it actually causes the organist to have an aneurysm while playing.
Lol
The best against Alzheimer!
Underrated Louis vierne comment
Ein großes Abenteuer souverän gemeistert.
French style is often more pianistic,but this is superorganistic ,10×Mount Everest
It’s extremely difficult to be sure, but very different than the difficulties found in the French Repertoire. I would say that the most difficult organ works are by Dupré, Messiaen, Langlais, Guillou, Francis Pott.
three cord notes and double trills with the feet, come one Reger you're showing off on this one
Considering what his most avantgarde contemporaries wrote in 1901, Reger can be lucky that he didn't end up in a straight jacket for writing such music. It's incredibly daring and has lost nothing of its power.
That's a pretty good point, actually.
Maxnificent performance by organist *Roberto Marini* !
Thank you, INC, for sharing this and also displaying the music. The firstime I saw the score scared me.
I planned to play only the fugue. Myersion of this organwork does not abbreviate the fugue subject. Like it far better.
Would love to hear it, Robert.
@@ric55 Dreamt last nighthat I was playing this. (Justhe fugue.) Now I need to get some rest.
*“6762”* From where did this originate??
C’est parfait
A cotanto divino ingegno,di siffatta magnificenza, diverso uso personale indicherei a quei due pollici retroversi che ammirazion non provano per l'opera in analisi. Dico che quando il verso dei pollici si tanta ottusità dimostra l'individuo,per superiore legge, il sondar del proprio pertugio retrostante meglio faria e saria prudente il far sosta per lungo tempo in quei ascosi luoghi.
Heavenly for heart but imagine to play this right for it should take more than a lifetime harder than devil himself. What a praise for our heart
13:00 this is incredible!
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@@yagiz885 that's absolutely amazing! A whole musical orgasm!
Reger is an extraordinary composer....as tricky as Alkan.
WAY more difficult than Alkan!!
This piece in difficulties can only be compared with difficulties to find closiness to man or partners as when Diogenes in tub(Grecce) had a lamp in daylight to find withhuman
I cry heavenly sad not to have the TOUCH to play this the hardest+chopinballads, some Chopinetyds
It has the name "Infernale"...I think that sais everything you need to know
this sounds like listening to a symphony inside a whale
How do you even compose a passage like 2:37?
I'd love to see a piano arrangement of this
I was working on it! It was an hell of a difficult piece. Eventually I'll go back working on it, maybe.
A piano arrangement for an imaginary multi-tentacled (10 tentacles for the pedals and 30 for the keyboard) alien octupus trained as a classical pianist might work.
Same
Maybe then one could hear what was happening and not hear just mush.
Maybe it would fit for two pianos.
Live 1 life for bminor sonata Liszt, and 20 for this fantasia
the fugue sounds very psychedelic to my ears
I wrote myself a infernofantasy plus much composition on piano organ but this is like going to moon without spacecraft absolutely challenge Chopin études ballads easily.how play this
Hat off
Just what the blazes is going on in the "Symphonic Fantasy"? It's not like you can even hear melody or any melodic lines as everything is mishmashed together in such clouded harmony. Apparently tonal, yes, no, who the heck knows? Who knows what the beat even is? It's like the music evokes fog blending into a blizzard with occasional lightning, cyclones and earthquakes thrown in. The chromatic fugue, at least initially, takes us back to the Reger we normally know, but then heads into to those humungous blurred sound walls (wave after wave of 50-note chords...seemingly at least). One wonders what Reger's esthetics at this point are? But I could imagine that in a dimly lit cathedral this would probably be as uncanny as hell. Is this music beautiful, grotesque, ugly, all or none of the above? What's more it doesn't sound like stereotyped avant-garde but rather schizo or psychotic late romantic music, like if the composer composed this with a 5 pound tumor pressing into his brain but not impairing him severely.
Reger's music is tonal, undoubtedly, Incredibly complex and intricate, but this is what makes it beautiful and unique. He was indeed a quite nervous man, and this reflected on the music, but there are moments of stunning clarity where counterpoint and voicing are nothing but a work of great mastery. It may take some time to appreciate it, but this is surely one of the finest organ piece I ever heard. Top notch writing, It's frightening, yes, but these Walls of Sound, these cathedrals of chords are a product of an intense and out of the ordinary musical mind, a Peak of the history of music, a great genius.
I laughed out loud at this comment in identification with it. It doesn’t help that there’s so much less voicing on the pipe organ than on the piano and that there’s a 5 second reverb in the performance space, so any fast passages sound like pulsating blobs of sound. If I didn’t have the score in front of me, I wouldn’t be able to say what, exactly, it was that I was hearing.
@@powerofalto I laughed when I wrote it (but the hyperbole corresponds to one kooky, albeit quote delightful, musical experience.) But we do love Reger's music: I always think of him as an avatar or belated incarnation of Bach. One of the few who could treat counterpoint and fugues in a very unique way after J.S. seemed to have plucked just about everything good off the grear fugal tree.
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You know, this is the "Inferno"-Fantasy, not a prelude...
This work is supposed to represent the Dante's inferno literary work, hence it is called the "inferno" phantasy and fugue. Apparently Reger has said this was his most difficult piece ever wrote. Not hard to believe him on this one...
Does anybody know what organ this is being played on?
This is the great 'Bruckner' organ in St. Florian / Austria (near Linz)
just reading music is frightening
I always cry with this Great fantasy but of POSITIV TEARS (in valley of tears but Nice positiv)not to play it (as pianist,piano-organcomposer)but maybe its better just to listen,but also we are often DENIED SUCH HIGHCULTURE when lowculture lowenergy is there in Who is best in sport+stupid leaders everywhere talking of democracy
So fantasic that if l in common life was not denied such music l would not NEAD to READ JOYCE KAFKA schoopenhauer Lermontov Vianini Cisero Montagne gracian Leopardi Byron
Fugue 13:37
After Bachs masterpiece toccata Fmajor came this
Please who is the organist that plays?
Roberto Marini
Magnificent! One of the best organist in the world
No common sundaypicknick but Himalaya 10 times,
Does anyone know some more jarring organ music? Other than Bach and buxtude at times of course
Messiean !
Vierne
Sorabji’s organ symphonies are definitely jarring
Try Liszt, Franck and Busoni.
So this is what a panic attack feels like... Good to know
If You are Liszts chopin godofsky himself, how to play this
wth
Am i even allowed to say I don’t like this piece? 🫣
It’s fittingly nicknamed “Inferno”
It's an horrible composition.. an endless chromatic slur...