Max Reger & Johanna Senfter

Clarinet Quintets
 

MAX REGER Clarinet Quintet in A, Op. 146
JOHANNA SENFTER Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op. 119 (WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING)
KILIAN HEROLD, Clarinet
ARMIDA QUARTETT
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In March of 1908, 27-year-old Johanna Senfter went “on a pilgrimage” to visit Max Reger in Leipzig. Having studied piano and violin at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, she now wanted to learn composition. Reger, only six years her elder, had been in charge of a masterclass for musical composition at Leipzig Royal Conservatory for only a year. Johanna Senfter started by taking private lessons from him. Ten years later, she recalled their first meeting. “The private lessons I had with him are the most stimulating experience I have had until now. Reger was very demanding.” Max Reger was indeed a strict teacher who expected his students to apply the same uncompromising work ethic as he did himself………(Excerpt from the booklet liner notes by Almut Ochsmann)