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...melancholic idyll of transience, conducted in a series of sirocco-damp villas across a classical landscape - is built into his early paintings. It was reinforced when, as an art student in Munich, he encountered the dreamlike, proto-surrealist canvases of the 19th century Swiss romantic Arnold Böcklin. By the time he settled in Turin in 1911, the meditative cast of his mind...
Reger: The BÖcklin Suite (German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, Joseph Keilberth conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Max Reger, Bavarian organist and composer, was something of a musical tornado in his time (1873-1916), notable for his free & easy ways with harmony and modulation. His more ponderous scores are seldom heard, but these four sonorous tone poems deserve to be. Performance and recording: good...