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Max Reger
Suite e minor for Organ op. 16, composer's transcription for Piano four-hands (First Edition)
Editor: Michael Kube
26.50 €
Urtext Edition without fingering, paperbound
Pages: 67 (XIII, 54), Size 31,0 x 23,5 cm
Order no. HN 652 · ISMN M-2018-0652-5
Max Reger’s powerful organ work is published for the first time in the previously unknown authentic version for piano four hands. The manuscript only came into the possession of the Reger Institute in Karlsruhe a few years ago. The famous Piano Duo Tal & Groethuysen was so impressed with the quality of the arrangement and its effect on the audience that they not only undertook to record it for the first time but also persuaded us of the necessity of publishing it. Music journalists gave it an incredible reception: “of course one would hope that through this arrangement the music of the organ suite would also be transported into the concert halls from the churches – yet, “one must, of course, already be able to play” [Piano News, 2000].
Reviews
... Natürlich lohnt sich der Kauf auch dieser Ausgabe . spielen muss man freilich schon können. ... Die Orgelsuite ist ein Schlüsselwerk für die Musik des jungen Max Reger, der nicht nur mit der Verbindung tradierter Technik und avancierter Harmonik experimentierte, sondern vor allem in jenen Monaten unter Depressionen, finanziellen Schwierigkeiten und Alkoholabhängigkeit litt. ... Eine Rehabilitierung hat Regers Musik heute nicht mehr nötig - zu wünschen wäre freilich, dass durch diese Bearbeitung auch die Musik der Orgelsuite aus den Kirchen hinaus in die Konzertsäle getragen würde.
[Piano News]
... Tanto più opportuna appare perciò la proposta della G. Henle Verlag di Monaco di Baviera, che ha appena pubblicato la versione per pianoforte a quattro mani della Suite op. 16 per organo.
[Il Giornale della Musica]
This edition, enclosed between the familiar blue covers of Henle Verlag is characteristically thorough in detail and clear in print.
[Sheet Music]