Brandenburg So/Levin - Max Reger: Four Tone Poems after Arnold B�cklin

In 1904 Max Reger wrote what was to be the first in a major sequence of variations on themes by his great predecessors. The Variations and Fugue on a Theme by J.S. Bach was written for piano but its richness and virtuosity exceed the scope of the instrument. Ira levin�s orchestration clarifies the structure, intensifies climaxes and reduces its length. The Four Tone Poems explore the paintings of the symbolist Arnold B�cklin and form symphonic mood pictures that veer from delicacy to Bacchanalian frenzy.