Max Reger - Violin Concerto in A-major, Op.101 (1908)
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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.
Work: Violin Concerto in A-major, Op.101 (1908)
Mov.I: Allegro moderato 00:00
Mov.II: Largo con gran espressione 27:07
Mov.III: Allegro moderato (ma con spirito) 40:03
Violinist: Benjamin Schmid
Orchestra: Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Hannu Lintu - เพลง
Ich habe Regers Musik nie verstanden, doch nun kann ich nicht genug bekommen...
Eine sehr sehr kompetente Aufnahme eines sehr sehr anspruchsvollen Konzerts! Großes Kompliment!!!
Endlich Mal ein Geiger, der bereit war, dieses Konzert richtig zu üben! Hinzu kommt die lobenswerte Bereitschaft aller Akteure, sich mit diesem Konzert ernsthaft auseinanderzusetzen! Bravo!!!
Reger used to compose long and compact pieces. That was the counterpart of his skill in composition, mainly in harmony and counterpoint. This concerto is full of majesty. This can be heard from the beginning: like in Beethoven and Brahms case, the soloist does not open the piece. We have a large and majestuous introduction by the tutti at its full strength.f course, all the score is built with the related proposrtions; The cadenza is an expressionist develpment. Agitated and more peaceful episods alternate along with this immense plan. The end is not a climax. Undoubtedly; we are facing one of the most ambitious architectures - even for Max Reger.
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@@IbrahimHoldsForth Let me tell things in a short way: absolutely excellent, but too much is too much.
@@IbrahimHoldsForth so I'm not the only one! Gerard Begni, I see your comments on nearly every video I listen to. You must have a great taste in music. ;p Thanks for your insights!
Great work and performance! Let's honour the 100th anniversary of the composer Max Reger!
Why is this music not performed on Classic FM???
Fascinating, don’t find it academic or boring at all
Reger's music is often described as dense or even turgid. There are moments when I can somewhat sympathize with this, but there are many more moments where I can't. This concerto for example, while long and complicated, is immensely charming, sunny and entertaining, not giving the feeling that there is even one note too many. In fact I think it is one of Reger's best works (not to suggest I know them all ;-) )
People who give such flippant reviews of Reger as to use the old "dense and turgid" are rather describing themselves. Ha ha. And, compared to what, anyway? I must agree with your take, because I have listened to all of his piano and organ works, some chamber and orchestral, and find him generally to be an original genius, with great talent and sensitivity, and pleasingly expressive of his time, and something of a serious neo-classicist....all good.
@@tdw57 I generally agree. Surely there are instances where his dense counterpoint and thick textures, combined with great length, become too much of a good thing. He did not always realize that less can be more. But indeed, an original genius, incredibly skilled in everything he did, and capable of creating music of great beauty and sometimes irresistible charm.
Bach should not be considered the most dense music can get. Hundreds of years had passed, can we not push the ear just a little bit?
IMHO one of the great violin concertos, up there with the Beethoven and Brahms, but virtually unknown in the UK. I discovered it last year after decades of listening to classical music, and was blown off my feet. If only concert planners were not allergic to Reger's late-romantic highly contrapuntal idiom!
I cannot speak of the world generally, but I can speak from the perspective of Los Angeles. A certain well known university here has gained much publicity lately, not for any scientific or medical breakthroughs (still less for Nobel Prizes being awarded to faculty,) but for Hollywood actresses taking, shall we say, "extraordinary measures" to get their intellectually less than extraordinary children admitted to the university as freshman students. Accordingly, the classical music station owned and operated (with listener support) by this same university has in recent years much dumbed down their programming, so as to not overly challenge these children of the stars (who probably don't listen anyway). Likewise, LA Philharmonic concert programming. Rarely does the orchestra program anything I haven't heard at least 300 times before. If they did, some of Hollywood's greatest stars would probably be scared away. (Certainly the name Bartok would do that). However, if what some of us disparage as "mere movie music" is your cup of tea, this is your kind of town. Fighting it here is hopeless for obvious reasons. Other places: do what you can to resist. Tell them you're sick of the same 2 or 3 violin concertos being played over and over again. Demand more programming of less familiar works.
@@patrickcrosby3824 Very well stated. I remember KUSC's Sunday night opera show with the great Duff Murphy was a special hour of rare live recordings (the first time I heard Jussi Björling singing with his soprano wife-the La Boheme duet from the Hollywood Bowl in 1949- and presentations of truly rare operas, including a 1959 Swedish Lost in Space. Since he left about a year ago that program, and KUSC in general, has become very predictable and humdrum. I really miss Doouuff (as the great and sorely missed Placido Domingo pronounced his name on the LA Opera broadcasts) Murphy. As for the LA Philharmonic, I'm not waiting with baited breath for its multi-performance John Williams marathon.
It is indeed a very long concerto. Reger had the sense of large scores. This work is rigorous, firmly architectured - which is crucial for a work of this duration. The orchestra is vey wll written. The dialog with the soloist is cleverly built. All in all, a long but gratifying concerto.
Tout à fait d'accord.
Very fine indeed!
Wonderful!
thank u for this...amaging...
THANK YOU!!...
amazing music.
astonishing!!!!!
After one of Reger's works was premiered, a critic of that era tore it to shreds, so much so that anyone else (weaker inside) might have considered never composing again and possibly crawling away into a hole somewhere.
Thankfully, Reger was stronger than that.He sent the critic a reply letter.
It read:
"I am in the smallest room in my house. Your review is in front of me. In a moment, it will be behind me!"
...I assume I don't have to explain that to anyone here! :)
PS: A lecturer I knew at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music shared that story in 1994. Hearing of that incident has stuck with me forever!
Precioso
Might I suggest that those puzzled by Reger start with his smaller works--size-wise. Try sonatas and chamber music. Get to know his voice interactions. You could, like me, become a true fan of his treasure trove of compositions.
Many soloists cut it, as it is the longest violin concerto in the repertoire, as far as I am aware. The recording by Susanne Lautenbacher is unabridged. I do not know who is playing on this recording and I have only just tuned in to it. More may be revealed later. Reger, was a serious composer, yet had a good sense of humour. He wrote; "I am on the lavatory seat in my house and have your criticism of my latest symphony before me and, in five minutes, it will be behind me.
this is so fine!
Interesting, nothing is quite clear at first listening. This piece is an adventure, it has to be conquered at several trials: then, it is great!
Agreed-well said!👍
A lot of ideas, even some beautiful moments that don't seem to go anywhere.
And I was told that Elgar's was the longest.
Oh well, that's just another challenge to overcome
The Dyson Concerto is another of the longer ones
Schöne Sendung
There are 2 basic kinds of music. In the first one the sounds involve you and carry you like a boat on a river, you have to do nothing. In the second kind, the music is like a parade of beauties passing swiftly in front of you, and you have to follow them attentively before they fade away. Reger's is the second one.
jolie
Wäre es bitte möglich, eine andere Werbeform einzustellen ohne Unterbrechungen? Vielen Dank!
Excellent performance - whose?
100 AÑOS DE FALLECIDO
I struggle to find a sense of direction with this concerto. The rhythms change too suddenly and there a few audible patterns.
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Max Reger was a bulimic of composition. he died from a heart attack, leaving a huge catalog, each opus being sometimes divided in several parts. He is mainly known as an organist, but this is only a small part of his work: chamber and symphonic music have the gretar romme by far in this catalog. he was also a bulimic for the length of his works: think tht this violin concerto lzsts about onr haour! Nevertheless, there is no decrease of interest during this hour of concerting music. The genius of Reger has always something to tell us. The constructio is quite ferm. It support vast, large developemnts of a great melodic and harmonich richness.
Thank you for your enthusiastic analysis! What OTHER composers like Reger do you favor? Greetings from México!
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Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
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Reger showed how to write huge concerto without even one interesting theme.
Max Reger was actually too early with his style. It's like a aggregation with Wagner and Gershwin.
I love Reger. He composed Late Romantic till the end, while the step to expressionism was made by Schönberg in 1907/08. Wagner's Tristan was 50 years before, so much more too early :-)
Wandelbart Reger was very progressive in his middle period. His Symphonic Phantasie opus 57 is even expressionistic and atonal. At the end of his short live he composed works partly in the impressionistic style, e.g opus 123 and 128, but mainly Late Romanticism.
Gershwin? My God, what does Gershwin has to do here?
My god? Why Gershwin? I would have said Bruckner or Mahler.
I hear quite some Tsjaikovski in it.
Quel profond ennui !
Oui c'est certain, tandis que vous-même êtes un génie de la composition
Schwierig, schwierig anzuhören!!!!!!!!!!!