More often than not, it is the work of a familiar and respected artist that we celebrate with a festival. But during the weekend just past, Indiana University’s Jacobs School defied that tradition in ...

Max Reger’s effusively early 20th century, late Romantic orchestral music is a hard sell in Los Angeles, or at least it is perceived that way, since no one has actually tried to sell it in recent ...

“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. Your review is in front of me. Soon, it will be behind me.” – composer Max Reger, responding to a negative review. It was a pretty good year. Classical ...

David Cox is an advocate. Janette Fishell is an advocate. Andrew Mead is an advocate. Advocate Cox is an Eastman School of Music-trained organist who, to earn a better living, switched professions: he ...

The Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will present the Max Reger Festival 150 from Nov. 3 to 5 to celebrate the 150th birthday of the German composer, pianist and organist credited ...

To what extent traffic affects attendance at Walt Disney Concert Hall is hard to know. Anecdotal evidence suggests that commute time matters. Even Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts conducted by ...

Tom Service explores the music of 19th-century composer Max Reger. Plus composer, pianist and journalist Peter Dickinson talking about his life in music. Show more Tom Service explores the music of ...

The Bach worship of the late-Romantic composer Max Reger largely took the form of voluminous writing for organ and a fondness for the fugue. But it arises in a more austere - and for some of us, more ...

This is one of those recordings that immediately stops you in your tracks. The performances are fine indeed, but more than anything, it’s the music itself that strikes you – it’s both utterly unique ...

This year’s centenary of Max Reger’s death isn’t getting much attention on disc or in the concert hall, but Sophie Bevan and Malcolm Martineau’s collection of his songs is a timely gesture. In keeping ...

Max Reger was highly regarded at the dawn of the 20th century, but you rarely hear his music today. From a concert at Portland State University in Oregon, the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin plays Reger's ...

Mozart wrote a lovely set of variations for the opening movement of his Piano Sonata, K. 331. More than a century later, German composer Max Reger became obsessed with that same theme... and wrote ...