My favourite Reger's piece! After this performance it should be clear to everybody that 1/16 or 1/32 in Reger DOES NOT necessarily mean as fast as you were chased by the aliens!
Man kann sich an den Geniestreichen unseres Max einfach nicht satthören, das ist mein Lebenselixier. Diese Musik gibt mir jedesmal wieder unheimlich viel Kraft. Letzten Sonntag im Dom zu Fulda op.27 gehört .. Demnächst spielt Martin Lücker diese Choralphantasie, das werde ich mir nicht entgehen lassen!
Thank you Meister Schneider! Now I appreciate what Reger meant when asked why he didn't write some "easy" works for amateur organists to play "My works are not meant to be easy; they are for competent experienced organists." (Slightly paraphrased.)
Amazing clarity enabling the lisener to hear the notes on the page the way Reger heard it. Minor cavil: what happened to 'sempre vivace'? Only Germani comes close to the power and clarity of this performance. BRAVO!
Lovely job on the notes. In the future, I hope that you will take the time to translate them into English. I used DeepL to get the following translation, which seems quite good. Reger paints an apocalyptic picture in the introduction: the heavens rip open in massive chords, the souls of the dead rise upward in the pedal runs. Like a flock of birds, the flocks of angels rise (1:06), fluttering upward and gliding downward again. This leads into the first chorale verse. The bass c.f. embodies the praise of the people, accompanied by the triplets of the angels hovering above. The second stanza (tenor c.f.) characterizes the earthly entanglements with chromaticism and voice crossings of the upper voices; downward pedal leaps threaten the slide into hell. In the third stanza, however, the angels' triplets again lay comfortingly over the tenor c.f. and lead to the praise of mankind in the fourth stanza, in which, after four measures, the angels also join in with their triplet movement. The 5th stanza begins with a long note as a bass voice, first in the manual, which then leads into a quiet line slowly descending to the lowest note of the organ, symbolic of the gradually passing human life, whose hardships are illustrated by the chromaticism of the accompanying voices. But after death comes redemption: above the alto c.f. of the 6th stanza rises a far-reaching, very expressive soprano voice; the soul is now free and unbound. In the last verse line of this stanza, the angelic triplets join in again. (11:21). The subsequent fugue is laid out as an increasing dance of joy of the souls and finally leads into the 7th stanza as an all-encompassing praise of God, beginning with the c.f. in the bass, which then changes to soprano octaves. Finally, the c.f. is heard in canon in the outer voices. Bernhard Schneider
My favourite Reger's piece! After this performance it should be clear to everybody that 1/16 or 1/32 in Reger DOES NOT necessarily mean as fast as you were chased by the aliens!
Das versüßt mir aber den Samstagabend! Vielen Dank für erneuten Reger-Genuss und das vorzügliche Orgelspiel!
Die fünfte Choralstrophe ist meine lieblings Strophe❤. Bravo
What precious a gem in the organ repertoire!
Man kann sich an den Geniestreichen unseres Max einfach nicht satthören, das ist mein Lebenselixier.
Diese Musik gibt mir jedesmal wieder unheimlich viel Kraft.
Letzten Sonntag im Dom zu Fulda op.27 gehört .. Demnächst spielt Martin Lücker diese Choralphantasie, das werde ich mir nicht entgehen lassen!
Wunderschön gespielt. Vielen, vielen Dank!
Balsam für meine Seele.
Thank you Meister Schneider! Now I appreciate what Reger meant when asked why he didn't write some "easy" works for amateur organists to play "My works are not meant to be easy; they are for competent experienced organists." (Slightly paraphrased.)
Amazing clarity enabling the lisener to hear the notes on the page the way Reger heard it. Minor cavil: what happened to 'sempre vivace'? Only Germani comes close to the power and clarity of this performance. BRAVO!
Lovely job on the notes. In the future, I hope that you will take the time to translate them into English. I used DeepL to get the following translation, which seems quite good.
Reger paints an apocalyptic picture in the introduction: the heavens rip open in massive chords, the souls of the dead rise upward in the pedal runs. Like a flock of birds, the flocks of angels rise (1:06), fluttering upward and gliding downward again. This leads into the first chorale verse. The bass c.f. embodies the praise of the people, accompanied by the triplets of the angels hovering above. The second stanza (tenor c.f.) characterizes the earthly entanglements with chromaticism and voice crossings of the upper voices; downward pedal leaps threaten the slide into hell. In the third stanza, however, the angels' triplets again lay comfortingly over the tenor c.f. and lead to the praise of mankind in the fourth stanza, in which, after four measures, the angels also join in with their triplet movement. The 5th stanza begins with a long note as a bass voice, first in the manual, which then leads into a quiet line slowly descending to the lowest note of the organ, symbolic of the gradually passing human life, whose hardships are illustrated by the chromaticism of the accompanying voices. But after death comes redemption: above the alto c.f. of the 6th stanza rises a far-reaching, very expressive soprano voice; the soul is now free and unbound. In the last verse line of this stanza, the angelic triplets join in again. (11:21). The subsequent fugue is laid out as an increasing dance of joy of the souls and finally leads into the 7th stanza as an all-encompassing praise of God, beginning with the c.f. in the bass, which then changes to soprano octaves. Finally, the c.f. is heard in canon in the outer voices.
Bernhard Schneider
1:06 kommt mir irgendwie bekannt vor. ;-) (Insider-Witz)