Marc-Andr� Hamelin (piano), Berlin Radio SO/ Volkov
(Hyperion)
A debt to Brahms is acknowledged in both these pieces, brilliantly played by Marc-Andr� Hamelin, who battles manfully through the emotional thicket of Max Reger's sprawling, dramatic piano concerto, which received such a hammering from the critics in 1910 that Reger took to drink. A century on it certainly seems unwieldy and melodramatic but hardly the horror it was thought to be at the time. Richard Strauss's mercurial Burleske makes a pleasant antidote to Reger's high seriousness, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in cracking form.
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