Max Reger: Phantasie Und Fuge Über BACH Opus 46: Organ: Instrumental Work

For me Sebastian Bach is the be-all and end-all of music; true progress lies and resides in him alone. It was with these programmatic words that Max Reger prefaced his answer to a survey What does Johann SebastianBach mean to me and what is his significance for our time posed by the editors of a magazine in 1905. Reger had already proven his adoration of Bach with his magnificent homage to the composer written and publishedin 1900 and probably the best-known of his works for Organ. It is an established work in the concert repertoire of well-known virtuosi but is also increasingly being performed by ambitious church musicians. Henle has nowpublished this sea of notes and performance directions in an edition with a particularly clear and readable text.