Much of Reger's vast output is either chamber music suited for small halls or organ music suited to churches, but his only piano concerto, in F minor, is a good candidate for orchestral concerts. It's a big three-movement work in the mold of Brahms' D minor Concerto, full of passionate themes, dramatic gestures, and heroic virtuosity, and one would have thought that pianists eager to play Romantic concertos other than Brahms' would have given it a shot.Surprisingly, before this release, only Rudolf Serkin among the great ...
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Much of Reger's vast output is either chamber music suited for small halls or organ music suited to churches, but his only piano concerto, in F minor, is a good candidate for orchestral concerts. It's a big three-movement work in the mold of Brahms' D minor Concerto, full of passionate themes, dramatic gestures, and heroic virtuosity, and one would have thought that pianists eager to play Romantic concertos other than Brahms' would have given it a shot.Surprisingly, before this release, only Rudolf Serkin among the great pianists had recorded Reger's concerto. On this CPO disc, pianist Michael Korstick, accompanied by conductor Ulf Schirmer and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, triumphantly takes on the piece. In Korstick's capable hands, Reger's music sounds as passionate, dramatic, and virtuosic as Brahms. Korstick has the technique to master the work's massive chords and monumental arabesques, the head to solve its knotty contrapuntal problems, and the heart to make its themes sing and its...
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