Weinberger - Max Reger: Organ Works, Vol.7

At long last our successful Reger Edition continues on its way. The critics have been more than enthusiastic about the previous releases, and Musik & Theater even stated: �These recordings number among the best currently available in the field of Reger�s organ music.� This month we are releasing Vol. 7, again with two CDs in the best Surround Sound, and this time featuring Reger�s five easy-to-play Preludes and Fugues op. 56. Although the composer termed this composition an organ work of small caliber in a letter to the publisher Lauterbach & Kuhn, the critics reacted positively, and the organist and composer Robert Frenzel numbered its pieces, which form anything but a secondary work, �among the most poetic phenomena in the most recent organ literature.� And we absolutely have to agree with him. The generic combination of Prelude and Fugue is frequently assigned to the realm of so-called absolute music, but Reger�s op. 56 does not seem to belong to this world in which only the musical structure is of significance; instead, particularly the preludes, which mostly practice dynamic moderation �like many of the �pieces� from op. 59 and other works � are distinguished by a pronounced poetic character.