Volume 53 of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series contains two post-Romantic works linked by demands for exceptional virtuosity, but poles apart in mood. Reger's Concerto in F Minor (1910) is a ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Joshua Weilerstein, Conductor Markus Becker, Piano (Johann Baptist Joseph) Max(imilian) Reger, Composer North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Episodes (8 Piano Pieces ...

The indefatigable Marc-André Hamelin has two discs out this month. The one that couples Max Reger’s 1910 Piano Concerto with Richard Strauss’s Burleske from the mid-1880s comes as part of Hyperion’s ...

“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. Your review is in front of me. Soon, it will be behind me.” – composer Max Reger, responding to a negative review. It was a pretty good year. We got to ...

It often seems as if it is only organists who prevent Max Reger's name from slipping off the map of turn-of-the-20th-century music altogether. The rest of his output, enormous when you remember that ...