Classical Music

Classical Music

Organist David Goode continues his series of recordings of the organ works of Max Reger on Signum with a new recording of his Fantasias and Fugues, recorded on the organ of Bath Abbey. The album includes his Fantasia and Fugue on BACH and the ‘Symphonic’ Fantasia and Fugue. David Goode is organist at Eton College, and is also much in demand as a teacher. In recent years he has composed a number of organ and choral works, and has received critical acclaim for his recordings.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Canadian musician Laura Young became a dedicated classical guitaristat the age of nine, and has since dazzled audiences with her unique style and daring concert programs. Laura Young presents this album of works by Max Reger in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. Young is a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

2016 will mark the centenary of the German late-Romantic composer Max Reger’s death. + Between 2013–1016, OehmsClassics will present in commemoration, and in co-production with the Bavarian Broadcasting Company (BR Klassik), a boxed set of 4 CDs per year building toward a complete accounting of Reger’s organ music. + As on 2013’s Complete Works for Organ Vol. 1: Early Works (OC 851), Munich-born Organist Bernhard Buttmann, director of church music at St. Sebald, Nürnberg since 2002, performs.

The one hundredth anniversary marking the death of Max Reger (1873-1916) is to be commemorated in 2016. In response to this occasion, OehmsClassics has presented and will continue to present yearly a single four-disc box set of Reger's extensive output of organ music during the years 2013-2016 in a co-production with the Bavarian Broadcasting Company (BR Klassik) in order to pay tribute to this magnificent Bavarian composer. Bernhard Buttmann, director of church music at N�rnberg's St. Sebald cathedral knows and plays the works of Reger to a degree paralleled by few contemporary organists.

May 11, 2016 is the centennial anniversary of the death of Max Reger. This box set is the fourth and final volume in OehmsClassics series of Reger’s complete works for organ. The pieces contained in this set include Reger’s Four Preludes and Fugues, Nine Pieces for Organ, Small Chorale Preludes, and Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, among many other great works. Performing these pieces is a master of Reger organ works, Bernhard Buttmann, who interprets these works like no other.

The Museum of Music Automatons in Seewen and the Max Reger Institute in Karlsruhe both contain recording rolls made by Max Reger and several of his contemporaries manufactured by the firm of M. Welte and Sons on a Welte Philharmonie recording organ beginning in 1911 in Freiburg im Breisgau. This double CD contains, for the first time, not only all the recordings that Reger made for the firm, but also more interpretations of Reger‘s works on the second CD with the organists Günther Ramin, Kurt Grosse, Walter Fischer and Joseph Messner.

Robert Benjamin Dobey’s study of the music of Max Reger dates back to 1972, when, after graduating from Oberlin Conservatory, he spent a year studying with the important Reger interpreter Michael Schneider in Cologne, Germany. His career has been filled with diverse musical activities as a singer, pianist, harpsichordist, and composer, his interests ranging from early music to premiere performances of new works. After his year in Germany on a Fulbright grant, his musical education continued at the Eastman School of Music. His organ teachers have included Marian Thomas, Garth Peacock, Michael Schneider and David Craighead. Active for many years in the Washington, D.C. area, he served there as keyboard artist with the Washington Bach Consort, Assistant Director of the Cathedral Choral Society, and a singer with the Woodley Ensemble. He also spent to two years singing in the choir of Wells Cathedral in England. He presently serves as Organist and Choirmaster at Grace Episcopal Church in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where his hobbies include devising ever more impractical schemes for landscaping his garden, and hosting visits from his many relatives. On this release, he performs 23 of Reger’s miniature pieces.