Max Reger's seven unaccompanied Violin Sonatas, Op. 91, are not mainstream works, as their few recordings suggest. But if any set were to help establish them in the repertoire, it would have to be Ulrike-Anima Mathé's 1992 performances for Dorian. In such a groundbreaking endeavor, she has found a distinctive voice in these pieces that gives them strong appeal, and the smoothness and precision of her playing make them rather pleasant to hear, even in one sitting. As a composer, Reger sometimes seemed to have a split musical ...
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Max Reger's seven unaccompanied Violin Sonatas, Op. 91, are not mainstream works, as their few recordings suggest. But if any set were to help establish them in the repertoire, it would have to be Ulrike-Anima Mathé's 1992 performances for Dorian. In such a groundbreaking endeavor, she has found a distinctive voice in these pieces that gives them strong appeal, and the smoothness and precision of her playing make them rather pleasant to hear, even in one sitting. As a composer, Reger sometimes seemed to have a split musical personality, writing music either in an extremely chromatic, dense, and complicated post-Romantic manner, as he did in much of his organ music, or doing the opposite by composing in a diatonic, almost Classical vein, often in his chamber music. The latter style prevails in the violin sonatas, which appear to be influenced above all by J.S. Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Franz Schubert, the last especially in the dance-like movements. There is no sense that these are cunning...
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