Reger: Cello Sonatas

Reger: Cello Sonatas

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Composer: Max Reger
Performer: Markus Becker
Performer: Alban Gerhardt
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Sonata for cello & piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 5: Allegro maestoso ma appassionato
  2. Sonata for cello & piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 5: Allegro (un poco scherzando)
  3. Suite for cello in G major, Op. 131c/1: Adagio
  4. Suite for cello in G major, Op. 131c/1: Fuge: Allegro
  5. Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 28: Agitato
  6. Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 28: Prestissimo assai
  7. Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 28: Intermezzo: Poco sostenuto (Quasi adagio)
  8. Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 28: Allegretto con grazia (Quasi allegro)
  9. Suite for cello in D minor, Op. 131c/2: Gavotte: Allegretto
  10. Suite for cello in D minor, Op. 131c/2: Largo
  11. Suite for cello in D minor, Op. 131c/2: Gigue: Vivace
Music CD 2
  1. Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in F major, Op. 78: Allegro con brio
  2. Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in F major, Op. 78: Vivacissimo
  3. Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in F major, Op. 78: Andante con variazioni
  4. Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in F major, Op. 78: Allegro vivace
  5. Suite for cello in A minor, Op. 131c/3: Scherzo: Vivace
  6. Suite for cello in A minor, Op. 131c/3: Andante con variazioni
  7. Sonata for cello & piano No. 4 in A minor, Op. 116: Allegro moderato
  8. Sonata for cello & piano No. 4 in A minor, Op. 116: Presto
  9. Sonata for cello & piano No. 4 in A minor, Op. 116: Largo
  10. Sonata for cello & piano No. 4 in A minor, Op. 116: Allegretto con grazia

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Music Review: Beautiful New Issue of the Complete Reger Cello Sonatas~Rare!!...
Rating: 5 Stars

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While Sebastain Bach wrote three Cello Sonatas, it was Beethoven's five which really brought the genre into the Romantic/post-Romantic era. Brahms constructed two, and Strauss added an early one contemporaneously with Brahms (1883); Bruckner and Mahler, nix.

So it was Reger who really assumed the mantel of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, bringing the genre of Cello Sonata into Modernism (at least in Germanic lands) eventually passing the torch to Hindemith. (Some French and Russian artists also produced works in the form.)

While similar to the genre of Violin Sonata, the Cello Sonata presents its own difficulties due to the tessitura of the larger stringed instrument: it can sound screechy in its top register and murky in its lower; moreover, the voice of the cello is easily lost within the timbre of the piano, so the form presents more challenges of balance and clarity to the composer. Reger apparently enjoyed the callenge and wrote four major Cello Sonatas which span his career.

These excellent and highly refined chamber works feature Reger's calling-card characteristics: (I) bold harmonic thinking; (II) liveliness; (III) formidable technical finish; (IV) quirky humour; (V) contrapuntal complexity; and (VI) elegant melodic design.

Reger employs some his favourite Italianate movement descriptions: maestoso ma appassionato; gran affetto; con brio; agitato; energico; con gran espressione, etc.

The works (like all Reger's chamber works) are generally book-ended with Allegro-type movements which bracket inner movements of extreme tempi--highly pressurized Prestississimos and Vivacissimos are grotesquely and arabesquely contrasted with below pulse-rate Largos.

Reger's well of inspiration ran deep: movement timings approach :10mins+ in duration.

Four large-boned Art Nouveau Sonatas:

Op. 5, f-minor (1892);
Op. 28, g-minor (1898);
Op, 78, F-major (1904);
Op. 116, a-minor (1910).

See too:
Bach: The Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord
Beethoven: The Music for Cello and Piano
Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
Pfitzner/Strauss/Hindemith: Cellosonatas
Chopin, Strauss: Sonates pour violoncello et piano
Fauré: Complete Works for Cello
Gabriel Pierné: La Musique de Chambre, Vol. 2
Debussy: Sonata for violin in Gm; Sonata for flute & viola L137
Fauré, Franck, Debussy: Cello Sonatas
The 20th-Century Cello
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