{"product_id":"serkin-plays-bach-and-reger-192819772015-pacm111","title":"SERKIN plays Bach and Reger (1928\/1977\/2015) - PACM111","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eJ. S. BACH \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eGoldberg Variations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eREGER \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eClarinet Sonata No. 3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStereo piano roll and live recordings, 1928\/2015 \u0026amp; 1977\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 66:53\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eDavid Singer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, clarinet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRudolf Serkin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM111.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nReger and Serkin never met in person, but a strong Reger performing\ntradition had been handed down to him, which has been noticeable well into\nthe performing of Rudolf’s son Peter. Though frequently uncredited, one\ninfluence on the young Reger performer Serkin must have been the\nBerlin-based pianist Frieda Kwast-Hodapp, whom Serkin possibly had met for\nthe first time by 1920, the same year he became regular piano partner of\nviolinist Adolf Busch. Like Busch, she belonged to the circle of performers\nheld in high esteem by composer Max Reger. Kwast-Hodapp’s second husband,\nindustrialist Otto Krebs, was Busch’s and Serkin’s landlord when the\nextended family (also including Busch’s wife Frieda and daughter Irene, who\nwas to marry Serkin by 1935) moved to Darmstadt in 1922, and it was at\nKrebs’s country estate Holzdorf, near Weimar, that the Busch Quartet plus\nSerkin spent long summer spells for relaxation and music-making;\nKwast-Hodapp’s Holzdorf music room has remained a legend in local music\nhistory.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nKwast-Hodapp had become a favourite performer of Reger’s piano music by\n1910, and it was she who premiered his Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 114,\nas well as the Telemann Variations, Op. 134, of 1914-5. Teenaged Adolf\nBusch had played to Reger the latter’s Violin Concerto in January 1909,\naccompanied on the piano by his brother Fritz, and been highly applauded by\nthe composer who soon afterwards furthered Busch’s career by engaging him\nas a soloist in public performances of the Concerto as well as in numerous\nchamber music concerts, the last of which took place on 14 March 1916, a\nbare two months before Reger’s death at age 43.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nReger had recorded for the firm of M. Welte \u0026amp; Söhne, one of the German\ncompanies producing automatic pianos, ten piano pieces of his on the\nhole-punching system of Welte Mignon on 8 December 1905, and he had\nintended to make some additional recordings, half of them to be devoted to\npreludes and fugues from Bach’s \u003cem\u003eWohltemperiertes Klavier\u003c\/em\u003e, for the\nFrankfurt-based firm of J. D. Philipps \u0026amp; Söhne, in May 1914, but this\nhad to be postponed, eventually indefinitely. For Welte, Serkin was one of\nthose to record music by Bach, and by the end of making hole-punching\nsystem recordings, in c1928, he recorded the Goldberg Variations (meanwhile\nthe Buschs and Serkin had moved from Darmstadt to Basle in April 1927). Due\nto limitations of the length of hole-punching paper rolls, the work had to\nbe divided into several sections, the maximum limit per roll being c12\nminutes. That some variations (variations 6 to 8) were omitted from the\nrecording was not so unusual, as such adjustments were likewise to be found\nregularly in concert and on record. The advantage of the Welte and similar\nsystems is that, unlike 78s which stores the sound analogously, the\nrecording can be reproduced ‘live’ on a concert grand piano, “like being\nperformed by the performer risen from the grave”. The current performance\nwas only once available on CD previously, with very limited circulation.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nTogether with Adolf Busch, Serkin was instrumental in founding the Marlboro\nMusic Summer Courses, the concerts of which were frequently recorded and\nsometimes even committed to disc. David Singer participated in several\nMarlboro concerts from 1971 to 2001, and he performed here together with\nSerkin only once a work by Reger – the Bb major Clarinet Sonata, Op. 107,\non 10 July 1977 – the work’s sole performance there to date. Singer’s\ncareer as one of the most highly respected clarinettists in the United\nStates has been established through performances and recordings as\nprincipal clarinettist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, frequent guest\nappearances with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, two separate\nperformances at the White House for Presidents Carter and Clinton and\nparticipation at the Marlboro, Spoleto and Edinburgh Music Festivals. He\nhas performed and\/or recorded, amongst others, with Yo Yo Ma, Yehudi\nMenuhin, Rudolf Serkin, Pinchas Zukerman and members of the Guarneri,\nEmerson, Orion, and Shanghai String Quartets. The reissue of this\nperformance from Marlboro is a worthwhile addition to the discographies of\nboth Singer and Serkin, whose life-long advocacy of the music of Reger\n(including his membership in the board of trustees of the\nElsa-Reger-Stiftung) is still inadequately represented discographically.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJürgen Schaarwächter\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMax-Reger-Institut\/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSERKIN \u003c\/b\u003eplays Bach \u0026amp; Reger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ S BACH\u003c\/b\u003e Goldberg Variations, BWV988\u003c\/span\u003e (31:56)\u003cbr\u003e1. Aria  (1:39)\u003cbr\u003e2. Variatio 1. a 1 Clav  (0:49)\u003cbr\u003e3. Variatio 2. a 1 Clav  (0:43)\u003cbr\u003e4. Variatio 3. Canone all’Unisono. a 1 Clav  (1:11)\u003cbr\u003e5. Variatio 4. a 1 Clav  (0:23)\u003cbr\u003e6. Variatio 5. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav  (0:38)\u003cbr\u003e7. Variatio 9. Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav   (0:52)\u003cbr\u003e8. Variatio 10. Fughetta. a 1 Clav  (0:36)\u003cbr\u003e9. Variatio 11. a 2 Clav  (0:42)\u003cbr\u003e10. Variatio 12 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quarta in moto contrario  (1:17)\u003cbr\u003e11. Variatio 13. a 2 Clav  (1:52)\u003cbr\u003e12. Variatio 14. a 2 Clav  (0:50)\u003cbr\u003e13. Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav.: Andante  (1:43)\u003cbr\u003e14. Variatio 16. Ouverture. a 1 Clav  (1:09)\u003cbr\u003e15. Variatio 17. a 2 Clav  (0:45)\u003cbr\u003e16. Variatio 18. Canone alla Sesta. a 1 Clav  (0:36)\u003cbr\u003e17. Variatio 19. a 1 Clav  (0:29)\u003cbr\u003e18. Variatio 20. a 2 Clav  (0:51)\u003cbr\u003e19. Variatio 21. Canone alla Settima  (1:17)\u003cbr\u003e20. Variatio 22. a 1 Clav. alla breve  (0:31)\u003cbr\u003e21. Variatio 23. a 2 Clav  (0:50)\u003cbr\u003e22. Variatio 24. Canone all'Ottava. a 1 Clav  (2:03)\u003cbr\u003e23. Variatio 25. a 2 Clav. adagio  (3:36)\u003cbr\u003e24. Variatio 26. a 2 Clav  (0:56)\u003cbr\u003e25. Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav  (0:45)\u003cbr\u003e26. Variatio 28. a 2 Clav  (0:56)\u003cbr\u003e27. Variatio 29. a 1 ô vero 2 Clav  (0:53)\u003cbr\u003e28. Variatio 30. a 1 Clav. Quodlibet  (0:48)\u003cbr\u003e29. Aria da Capo  (2:19)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eWelte Mignon recording grand piano) (Welte rolls 4184 to 4186)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecording studio of M. Welte \u0026amp; Söhne, Freiburg i. Br., c 1928; recording realized during the exhibition on Adolf Busch, Rudolf Serkin and Max Reger at the Klang Raum Riehen, 2 June 2015. Welte Steinway Grand Piano; piano engineer: André Scheurer; recording engineer: Sven Boenicke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eWe are indebted to André Scheurer for his encouragement and passion in making this recording happen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eBy kind permission of Edition streiffzug (producer: Egidius Streiff)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREGER \u003c\/b\u003eClarinet Sonata No. 3 in B flat, Op. 107\u003c\/span\u003e (34:57)\u003cbr\u003e30. 1st mvt. - Moderato  (13:06)\u003cbr\u003e31. 2nd mvt. - Vivace  (5:58)\u003cbr\u003e32. 3rd mvt. - Adagio  (6:48)\u003cbr\u003e33. 4th mvt. - Allegretto con grazia  (9:05)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Singer\u003c\/b\u003e, clarinet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003ePersons Auditorium, Marlboro College, 10 July 1977\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eBy kind permission of Marlboro Music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolf Serkin\u003c\/b\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXR Remastered by  Andrew Rose\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork based on a photograph of Rudolf Serkin taken in 1977\u003cbr\u003eSpecial thanks for their invaluable assistance to the Serkin family and Dr. Jürgen Schaarwächter\u003cbr\u003eProduced in co-operation with the Max-Reger-Institut\/Elsa-Reger-Stiftung, Karlsruhe, Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTotal duration:  66:53  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fCover Art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcover_art578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/thumbs\/PACM111.jpg578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcovers\/PACM111.pdf578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab3_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f","brand":"Pristine Classical","offers":[{"title":"Stereo 24-bit FLAC","offer_id":44064690045018,"sku":"xcw1789303235741","price":13.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Stereo 16-bit FLAC","offer_id":44064690077786,"sku":"vmk1789303235742","price":9.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"320kbps Stereo MP3","offer_id":44064690110554,"sku":"egj1789303235743","price":6.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/3807\/0874\/files\/serkin-plays-bach-and-reger-192819772015---pacm111_1.jpg?v=1789303244","url":"https:\/\/vestorawear.shop\/products\/serkin-plays-bach-and-reger-192819772015-pacm111","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}