From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: Reger's Song of the Hermit
Date: 23 Aug 92 03:10:05 GMT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department

In article <1992Aug22.233351.3248@Princeton.EDU> roger@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) writes:
>In article <1992Aug22.151222.18230@cs.ucla.edu> pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes:
>>In article <CB.92Aug21175058@tamarack13.timbuk> cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:

>>>I was interested to hear a full-blown
>>>late-romantic orchestral song that I didn't already know
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoops.

>Actually, I bet it was the cantata "Der Einsiedler," a fairly late work
>of Reger, which, unlike the Boecklin-Suite, calls for a singer.  There's
>a Requiem from around the same time.  Tis is from Reger's heaviest
>phase, with, among other things, strings divided into muted and unmuted
>choirs, but sitting together, and all that polyphony.

Is this a musical setting of the poem "Der Einsiedler" (the hermit) by
Joseph von Eichendorf? I note in "melvyl.ucop.edu" that there are least
two musical settings of that poem (by Joseph Dessauer and Robert
Franz).

Here is an entry for an *orchestral song* from "melvyl.ucop.edu":

Author:        Reger, Max, 1873-1916.
Uniform title: Vocal music. Selections.
Title:         Chorwerke ; Zwei Gesange fur Chor und Orchester / Max Reger. 
                 Hamburg : Telefunken, [1970?]
Description:   1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.

Publisher No.: SLT 43114-B Telefunken

Notes:         Sung in German.
               Notes on the Junge Kantorei in German and English and texts on
                 container.
               Contents:  Der Einsiedler : op. 144a -- Nachtlied : (Die Nacht
                 ist kommen) : op. 138, Nr. 3 -- Kreuzfahrerlied : (In Gottes
                 Namen fahren wir) : op. 138, Nr. 5 -- Wir glauben an einen
                 Gott : op. 138, Nr. 8 -- Es kommt die Zeit, so spricht der
                 Herr : (Advent) -- Christ, von den Toten erweckt : (Ostern) --
                 Wir loben den Vater und den Sohn : (Trinitatis) --
                 Palmsonntagmorgen : (Es fiel ein Tau vom Himmel) --
                 Ostermotette : (Lasset uns den Herren preisen) -- Requiem :
                 op. 144b.
               Performers:  Junge Kantorei, with (in the 1st and last works)
                 Max van Egmond, baritone ; Symphonisches Orchester Berlin ;
                 Joachim Martini, conductor.

Subjects:      Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 5 parts), Unaccompanied.
               Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra.

Other entries: Egmond, Max van.
               Martini, Joachim.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Einsiedler. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Geistliche Gesange, op. 138. Nachtlied.
                 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Geistliche Gesange, op. 138.
                 Kreuzfahrerlied. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Geistliche Gesange, op. 138. Wir glauben
                 an einen Gott. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Responses, mixed voices, unacc. Es kommt
                 die Zeit, so spricht der Herr. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Responses, mixed voices, unacc. Christ,
                 von den Toten erweckt. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Responses, mixed voices, unacc. Wir loben
                 den Vater und den Sohn. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Palmsonntagmorgen. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Oster-Motette. 1970.
               Reger, Max, 1873-1916. Requiem (Hebbel) 1970.
               Junge Kantorei.
               Symphonisches Orchester Berlin.
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