Max Reger is regarded by many as the greatest German composer of organ music since Bach. On this ninth volume in Naxos’s series, Josef Still, whose performances on Volume 4 (8.555905) were acclaimed as ‘note perfect, lucid, flamboyant and sensitive in equal measure and utterly compelling’ by the Gramophone, returns with another fascinating recital. The magisterial Variations and Fugue and Chorale Fantasia that flank other sacred and secular pieces on this disc musically embody Reger’s famous remark, ‘Other people write fugues—I live inside them.’
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Reger, Max
Variations and Fugue on Heil, unserm Konig Heil, WoO 4, No. 7
1 Variations 03:39
2 Fugue 04:22
12 Pieces, Op. 65: Nos. 1-6
3 No. 1. Rhapsodie in C-Sharp Minor 07:23
4 No. 2. Capriccio in G Major 04:56
5 No. 3. Pastorale in A Major 04:53
6 No. 4. Consolation in E Major 04:05
7 No. 5. Improvisation in A Minor 04:59
8 No. 6. Fugue in A Minor 05:00
Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
9 Es kommt ein Schiff geladen 01:02
Wie schon leucht't uns der Morgenstern
10 Wie schon leucht't uns der Morgenstern 01:23
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
11 O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden 01:47
