Today Rob Cowan played Reger suite for violin and orchestra. I can not understand why people find his music dry. I have no problem with it. May be it is because I love Bach.
Yes, Trained-Pianist, some Reger is wonderful: lately I have been listening often to the Variations on a theme of Bach for piano solo. Like most composers, some of his works are good, and some dull. The other sets of variations he wrote are pretty good, as well: ie Hiller, Telemann, Mozart. I played the other day on my very old reel-to-reel tape recorder the Variations and Fugue on a "merry" theme of Hiller because I wanted to assess whether it was worth trying to get a CD of it. When I tried to play it a second time, the tape recorder "gave up the ghost" and ceased to work! I think a rubber band inside had finally perished (I only use the machine about once a year). It is an Akai dating from the early 1970s - don't know if you can still get spares for it: I doubt it very much. Anyway, my one hearing of the work convinced me to look for a CD.
