Markus Schäfer - Max Reger - 12 Lieder op. 51; 17 Gesänge op. 70 (2023)

Max Reger composed more than 300 songs with piano accompaniment; an extensive group of works that clearly exceeds even the number of songs by Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms or Hans Pfitzner, for example. Thus the importance of the Lied genre also becomes clear for Reger himself, composed in the short span of the years 1893 to 1907 (with relatively few latecomers until 1915)
As a contribution to Reger's 150th birthday in 2023, the complete song cycles op. 51 and op. 70 with Markus Schäfer (tenor) and Ernst Breidenbach (piano) appear here.