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Variations & Fugue Op. 132 on a Mozart theme
Romantic Suite Op. 125
Conductors: Esa-Pekka Salonen / Lothar Zagrosek
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of the Südwestfunk Baden-Baden 

Max Reger [1873-1916] was a German composer whose artistic worth far surpasses his still generally meager representation on the concert stages and in recordings. In his teen years, he came under the disparate influences of Bach and Wagner, and eventually fused a style from these sources, adding his own unique and seemingly ubiquitous counterpoint, to fashion music that was both ahead of its time and inextricably bound to the past. His mature idiom melded Baroque structural ingredients with the opulent harmonic palette of the late Romantic period.