Reger - Organ Sonatas, Fantasia & Fugue on B-A-C-H
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95075
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th May 2017
Contents
Works
Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H, op.46Sonata no.1 in F sharp minor, op.33
Sonata no.2 in D minor, op.60
Artists
Adriano Falcioni (organ)Works
Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H, op.46Sonata no.1 in F sharp minor, op.33
Sonata no.2 in D minor, op.60
Artists
Adriano Falcioni (organ)About
Indeed the recording serves as an ideal introduction to a body of work which still has a forbidding aspect to many listeners. Outside Germany, Reger is still underappreciated for the density of his counterpoint and the richness of his harmonic language, which could hardly exist without Wagner and yet places itself at a distance from the erotic aspect of the operas, while also pursuing a path distinct from his Modernist contemporaries. The Fantasy and Fugue on B‐A‐C‐H is one of Reger’s most accomplished and dramatic homages to the composer he loved above all others. The First Sonata concludes with an extended Passacaglia – one of several in the composer’s output which inevitably recalls the great C minor Passacaglia of the young Bach.
But it is the Second Sonata in which the mastery of Reger’s mature style is most persuasively evident, from the striking gestures of the opening Improvisation, through the gentle solemnity of the Invocation to the taut and thrilling progress of the concluding Fugue. The album complements the organist’s well‐received recordings of late 19th‐century organ music for Brilliant Classics, among them the complete organ sonatas of Guilmant (BC94227) and the complete organ music of Franck (BC94349).
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