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REGER, M: String Trios and Piano Quartets (Complete), Vol. 2 (Aperto Piano Quartet) - Piano Quartet, Op. 133 / String Trio, Op. 141b

Composer(s):Reger, Max
Artist(s)
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber Music
Catalogue 8.570786
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
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USD 9.99
 

 
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USD 6.99
 

 


This is the second of two discs of the complete piano quartets and string trios of Max Reger. The Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 133, completed during the first month of World War I, is a deeply expressive and intense work, using the full range of the instruments. Re-modelled from the Flute Serenade, Op. 141a, the graceful and melodic String Trio in D minor is altogether of a sunnier and lighter disposition. Volume 1 is available on Naxos 8.570785.


   




Review By Kenneth Keaton,American Record Guide,March 2009

This is Volume 2 of the complete Reger Piano Quartets and String Trios. Volume 1, with the Op. 113 quartet and the Op. 77b trio was released on Naxos 8.570785…This music is typical Reger—very rich, thick, and intense…Not that these players seem unconvinced—this is a fine performance, committed and devoted. The players are technically beyond reproach, each with a large and lovely tone. Perhaps a lighter approach can serve to make this music somewhat more transparent, but the Apertos choose to take Reger at his word and play full tilt. If you enjoy Reger—and his music is often enough performed that there are fans out there—you won’t go wrong with these

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Review By Ensemble Magazin für Kammermusik,February 2009


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Review By Kevin Sutton,MusicWeb International,November 2008

Max Reger was a prolific loner whose career seemed to vacillate readily between having success as a professor, being misunderstood as a member of the avant-garde, and being derided for his old-fashioned devotion to tonality and traditional structural forms. What is left to us is a large body of work, some of which is over-ripe and difficult to digest. Yet for all of his excursions into then uncharted chromatic harmonies, fiendishly difficult keyboard music written for himself to play and structural architecture often stretched to the breaking point, we still have a composer of often profound depth and surprising originality. 

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Review By David Denton, Naxos,October 2008

In August I gave a warm welcome to the first of two discs containing Max Reger’s complete String Trios and Piano Quartets (8.570785). The second proves equally rewarding. Even in his short life Reger created a sizeable catalogue of chamber music, and showed in his two scores for string trio a total mastery of the idiom. The Second came from 1915, in the later part of his career, and though it shares with the earlier score a warmth of expression, there was now a sense of sadness in the opening allegro. The yearning theme establishes the second movement variations with a poignancy that is eventually offset by a finale where lightness of touch recalls Mendelssohn. The Piano Quartet stands somewhere between Brahms and Richard Strauss, but with a playful finale

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