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Max Reger: Four Tone Poems after Böcklin; Romantic Suite
Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
Martín's baton certainly supplies Spanish sunshine and vivacity; though we must also factor in the lively opulence of Ondine's recording, the commitment and verve of the Gavle Symphony Orchestra...
Max Reger: Four Tone Poems after Böcklin; Romantic Suite
Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
Martín's baton certainly supplies Spanish sunshine and vivacity; though we must also factor in the lively opulence of Ondine's recording, the commitment and verve of the Gavle Symphony Orchestra...
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This new album by Gavle Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jaime Martín includes two perhaps finest orchestral works by Max Reger (1873–1916) written towards the end of his life, the Four Tone Poems after Böcklin and the Romantic Suite, both sensous and poetic works suggesting a loose connection with Debussy. Reger’s 150th anniversary of birth was celebrated in 2023. Yet, much of Reger’s music appears on concert programmes only very occasionally. During his own lifetime Reger was highly admired: Paul Hindemith described Reger as “the last giant of music,” and when Schoenberg founded his Society for Private Musical Performances in 1918, Max Reger, along with Debussy and Bartók, was one of the most frequently performed composers. Admiring Reger as an important innovator, Schoenberg promoted his music because “he still remains unfamiliar” and “I consider him a genius”. Reger’s Four Tone Poems after Böcklin and the Romantic Suite are sufficient to prove that Schoenberg was totally right.
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Orchestral Works by Max Reger from Jaime Martín and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra
12th Dec 2025
Released back in August, this album (one of our Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2025) presents a marvellously evocative and captivating account of two orchestral works by Max Reger: the Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin, Op. 128, and the Romantic Suite, Op. 125.
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2025
October 2025
Martín's baton certainly supplies Spanish sunshine and vivacity; though we must also factor in the lively opulence of Ondine's recording, the commitment and verve of the Gavle Symphony Orchestra and the wisdom of choosing two Reger pieces - programmatic, reasonably compact, both just predating the First World War - that are already halfway beguiling.
September 2025
A wonderful album...Now, could we have the Reger Ballet Suite and the Serenade Op 95 from the same forces so that we can permanently put the 'Reger-as-boring-contrapuntalist' rumour to rest?
