A new edition of Reger’s Choralfantasien to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth

Martin Schmeding   Max Reger's chorale fantasias were last published by Edition Peters in 1977, in an edition by Christoph Albrecht. To mark the 2023 Reger anniversary year, Peters have published a new Urtext edition, edited by Martin Schmeding.  Schmeding comments 'Albrecht's edition reflected the current state of research at the time, based on the first printed editions. However numerous practical performing details were removed or added because it was felt that insufficient instruments would be available at that time to carry out the composer's instructions.' 'This assessment may have  been perfectly logical back then given…