Max Reger: Variationen & Fuge über ein Bach-Thema op.81 on CD
Variationen & Fuge über ein Bach-Thema op.81
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
+Variationen & Fuge über ein Telemann-Thema op. 143; 5 Humoresken op. 20
- Artists:
- Marc-Andre Hamelin (Klavier)
- Label:
- Hyperion
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1998
- Item number:
- 8865573
- UPC/EAN:
- 0034571169965
- Release date:
- 8.2.1999
Product-Information:
Reger's music is an amalgam of Bachian counterpoint and chromatic Romantic harmony—the result is writing of great density. This is particularly true of the ›Bach‹ Variations, Reger's piano masterpiece. Hamelin's superb virtuosity allows him to focus purely on the music, so keeping any sense of heaviness from infiltrating piano writing which, in other hands, can sound merely laboured.
The »Telemann« Variations are much less chromatic, more decorative, and as a result are much closer to the Baroque concept of »variation«. Their virtuosity is more obvious, with many opportunities for the soloist to display his fingerwork.
The Five Humoresques reveal Reger in lighter mode. Here the inspiration is surely from Brahms.
Rezensionen
»Others have courageously fought the cause of this complex and neglected repertoire but few, if any, have brought to it such compelling fusion of temperament, intellect, and prodigious pianistic fluency« (Gramophone)
»This is a marvellous disc« (BBC Music Magazine)
»An embarrassment of riches. This is absolutely first-rate playing. Quite simply this is a stunning recital« (The Scotsman)
»I was enthralled« (Classic CD)
Reviews
J. Otten in Scala 5/99: »Hamelin scheint der richtige Interpret, um die kontrapunktische Vielfalt transparent zu gestalten; er verfügt über eine staunenswerte Technik, die es ihm ermöglicht, die diversen Schichten in Regers Variationen-Werke freizulegen.«Rondo 4-5/99: »...grandios und gewissenhaft. Wenn sich eine Größe wie Hamelin dieser Frühwerke annimmt, werden sie vielleicht endlich wiederentdeckt.«
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Johann Sebastian Bach op. 81
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1 Thema: Andante
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2 Variation I: L'istesso tempo
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3 Variation II: Sempre espressivo ed assai legato
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4 Variation Iii: Grave Assai
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5 Variation IV: Vivace
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6 Variation V: Vivace
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7 Variation VI: Allegro molto
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8 Variation Vii: Adagio
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9 Variation Viii: Vivace
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10 Variation IX: Grave e sempre molto espressivo
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11 Variation X: Poco vivace
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12 Variation XI: Allegro agitato
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13 Variation Xii: Andante Sostenuto
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14 Variation Xiii: Vivace
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15 Variation Xiv: Con Moto
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16 Fuge: Sostenuto
Fünf Humoresken op. 20
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17 Nr. 1: Allegretto grazioso - Piu meno mooso - Tempo primo
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18 Nr. 2: Presto - Andante - Presto
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19 Nr. 3: Andantino grazioso - Meno mosso - Tempo primo
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20 Nr. 4: Prestissimo assai - Meno mosso - Prestissimo assai
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21 Nr. 5: Vivace assai - Piu tranquillo - Tempo primo
Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Georg Philipp Telemann op. 134
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22 Thema: Tempo di Minuetto
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23 Variation I: L'istesso tempo
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24 Variation II: L'istesso tempo
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25 Variation Iii: L'istesso Tempo - Scherzando
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26 Variation IV: L'istesso tempo
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27 Variation V: Non troppo vivace
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28 Variation VI: Non troppo vivace
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29 Variation Vii: Quasi Tempo Primo
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30 Variation Viii: Tempo Primo
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31 Variation IX: Non troppo vivace
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32 Variation X: Quasi adagio
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33 Variation XI: Quasi adagio
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34 Variation Xii: Poco Vivace
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35 Variation Xiii: Tempo Primo
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36 Variation Xiv: Meno Vivace
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37 Variation XV: Andante
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38 Variation Xvi: Adagio
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39 Variation Xvii: Poc Andante
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40 Variation Xviii: Tempo Primo
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41 Variation Xix: Poco Vivace
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42 Variation XX: Poco vivace
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43 Variation Xxi: Poco Vivace
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44 Variation Xxii: Vivace
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45 Variation Xxiii: Poco Andante - Molto Adagio
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46 Fuge: Vivace con spirito - Meno mosso
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