Reger is one of those composers more talked about than listened to caricatured as a prolific writer of organ music with a penchant for dense musical textures. However, he certainly was not averse to a good tune: the two Romances abound in lush lyricism, while the magnificent Violin Concerto shows him continuing in the tradition of Beethoven and Brahms. No less a figure than Adolf Busch championed it first performing it when he was just sixteen. The young German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender, who has already made such an impact in recordings of Schulhoff and Paganini, is joined here by Lothar Zagrosek and the Berlin Konzerthausorchester.
Reger is one of those composers more talked about than listened to caricatured as a prolific writer of organ music with a penchant for dense musical textures. However, he certainly was not averse to a good tune: the two Roma...
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