Release Date: 01 January 1999
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571169965
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Release Date: 01 January 1999
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571169965
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Description
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.
Tracklisting
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Alina Ibragimova, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Vladimir Jurowski
Mahan Esfahani
The Binchois Consort / Andrew Kirkman
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Maurice Wright, Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, Leif Ove Andsnes
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin