I'm a Blomstedt fan. He's one of the few remaining champions of Max
Reger.

Here is Blomstedt and Reger's Hiller Variations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJVOIhMvfIE&t=1530s

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Rolans: "Apparently, Mengelberg liked it; he conducted it 25 times,
first in
1907. According to Wikipedia, that's the year in which Reger published
or completed this composition. Other conductors who played it with the Concertgebouw orchestra:
Dopper, Muck, Jochum, Järvi and Blomstedt."

Reger was an important composer at the time. If he'd written operas as
well, he would have been as big as Strauss. However, Reger wrote a lot
of top class chamber music, which Strauss and Mahler didn't do. His last
three string quartets + clarinet quintet are unsurpassed.

The big variations suites (Hiller and Mozart) were standard orchestra repertoire upo to 1975. They're really gratifying music for the
orchestra, conductor and audience.

Reger also wrote tons of music that drives me nuts.

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