Max Reger, Peter Dickinson
Tom Service explores the music of 19th-century composer Max Reger. Plus composer, pianist and journalist Peter Dickinson talking about his life in music.
Tom Service explores the music of German composer Max Reger who died 100 years ago this month, talking to performers and enthusiasts about the individual musical world of a man whose works sit between tradition and modernity. He talks to composer, pianist and journalist Peter Dickinson about a lifetime spent writing, performing and thinking about music. He also joins tenor Ian Bostridge and director Netia Jones in rehearsal for Hans Zender's re-imagining of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise.
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Max Reger
Duration: 18:48
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Max Reger
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The Dark Mirror
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Peter Dickinson
Duration: 12:18
Max Reger

German composer Max Reger, who died 100 years ago this month, has always been something of a 鈥榤armite鈥� composer with equally passionate advocates and detractors. Tom talks to performers and enthusiasts to find out why people both love and might hate the music of a complex individual whose works sit between tradition聽and modernity. With pianist Markus Becker, musicologists Christopher Anderson and John Deathridge, conductor Herbert Blomstedt and broadcaster Rob Cowan.聽
More information:
Markus Becker鈥檚 list
of 10 鈥楳ad Max鈥� recordings for Reger beginners
Scherchen conducts Reger: Variations
and Fugue for Orchestra on a Theme by Mozart Op. 132
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Hermann
Scherchen (conductor)
CPO 9991432 (2CD)
Reger: Piano Concerto
Rudolf
Serkin,聽Philadelphia
Orchestra, Eugene
Ormandy聽(Conductor)
Sony Classical
Reger: The Complete Works For Clarinet And Piano
Ib Hausmann (Clarinet), Nina Tichman (Piano)
HANSSLER HAEN93035
Reger: Clarinet Quintet in A major Op. 146
Sharon Kam (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen, Ulrike-Anima Mathe, Volker
Jacobsen, Gustav Rivinius
BERLIN CLASSICS 0300643BC
Reger: Piano Music for Four Hands
Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen (piano duo)
Sony Classical
Reger: Violin Concerto in A major Op. 101
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar
Zagrosek (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67892 (CD)
Reger: Schlichte Weisen Op. 76
Frauke May (mezzo-soprano), Bernhard Renzikowski (piano)聽
ARTE NOVA ANO 927610 (2 CD)
Reger: Cello Sonatas &
Cello Suites
Alban Gerhardt (cello), Markus Becker (piano)
HYPERION CDA67581/2 (2CD)
Reger: Sieben Charakterst眉cke
Markus Becker (piano)
THOROFON CTH 2311
Reger: Sechs Intermezzi
Markus Becker (piano)
THOROFON CTH 2317
The Dark Mirror

Tom Service joins tenor Ian Bostridge and director Netia Jones in rehearsal for Hans Zender's orchestrated version of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise.聽 They talk about how Zender鈥檚 re-imagining adds new dimensions to Schubert鈥檚 original, setting it in the musical sound-world of Weimar Germany, making it more theatrical, as well as Bostridge鈥檚 personal lifelong journey with Schubert鈥檚 work.
More information:Peter Dickinson

Tom talks to composer, pianist and journalist Peter Dickinson about a lifetime spent writing, performing and thinking about music.聽 He discusses how travelling to 聽America when he was young affected his music, particularly the influence of John Cage on his compositional technique, as well as his meetings with English poets Auden and Larkin.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Tom Service |
Interviewed Guest | Peter Dickinson |
Interviewed Guest | Ian Bostridge |
Interviewed Guest | Netia Jones |
Broadcasts
- Sat 7 May 2016 12:15麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
- Mon 9 May 2016 22:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
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