Complete Piano Quartets

Complete Piano Quartets

Claudius Tanski / Mannheimer Streichquartett

MDG 3361869 - 0760623186924

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In 1996 and 1998 the Mannheimer Streichquartett with Claudius Tanski, piano, presented Max Reger’s Piano Quartets op. 113 and op. 133 as world premiere recordings.

The international press was impressed:
"... das Mannheimer Streichquartett [ist] samt dem hervorragenden Pianisten Claudius Tanski engagiert und souverän mit diesen hochkomplexen Werk vertraut ..." (FonoForum)
"La lecture du Quatuor de Mannheim et de Claudius Tanski est de nouveau réprochable ... Sans concurrence, cette version de qualité comble ..." (Diapason)
"One of the finest Reger chamber music discs around, with sumptuous sound to match" (Classic CD)
"Und die vorzüglichen Streicher des Mannheimer Streichquartetts wissen wie Claudius Tanski die ganze Leichtigkeit dieser für Reger so ungewöhn- lichen Musik auszuspielen." (Fonoforum) 

Famous
A question for the producer, “The expressive fundamentality of the quartet and the innocent merriment of the serenade - is that a legitimate combination?“ The answer comes from Reger himself, “This program is just splendid! We would be hard put to come up with a better and more varied one!“ Therefore we complemented the Piano Quartet op. 113 with the Serenade op. 141a and the Piano Quartet op. 133 with the Duos op. 131b. These very successful recordings are now presented in a box of 2 CDs. 

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