Max Reger: Complete Works For Clarinet And Piano
Robert Oberaigner; Michael Schoch
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Robert Oberaigner; Michael Schoch
Description
The Dresden State Orchestra's young solo clarinettist Robert Oberaigner and the ARD prizewinner Michael Schöch have joined forces on this recording to present Reger's two clarinet sonatas op. 49 along with his Sonata op. 107.
Right from the beginning Reger's op. 49 No. 1 is absolutely enthralling: "Allegro affannato" is his interpretive prescription here, and Oberaigner and Schöch's rendering of a character situated somewhere between "breathless," "hurried," and "pressured" has to be heard to be believed!
Reger's third sonata, composed some eight years after the first two, produces its effect in a very similar manner: classical in its design, this work wins over the listener with clarity and simplicity reflecting the greatest mastery. The premiere, at which the dedicatee Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig zu Hesse himself was in attendance, must have been an overwhelming success.
The two soloists form a chamber dream duo of a kind that is only rarely found. Tone colours and expressive gestures are exchanged and further developed, so that the result is pure joy: competition occurs in the field of dynamic expression, and the quest for the unknown becomes a common cause. Luxurious 2+2+2 sound, a Super Audio CD of the highest recording quality.
Tracklisting
Steffen Schleiermacher
Ma'alot Quintett, Trio Roseau
Cologne Chamber Choir, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann
Stephen Marchionda
Christian Euler, Paul Rivinius
Caterva Musica, Erdal Akkaya
Leipzig String Quartet
Andrzej Szadejko, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Cracow Singers
Walter Weller; Various Orchestras
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos; Various Orchestras
Quatuor Molinari
Luc Beausejour
Ariane Brisson; Philip Chiu
Tomas Vrana, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Gabor Kali
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Riccardo Chailly
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Britten Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas