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Bruch: Violin Concerto - Romanze

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Catalogue numberBIS-1852 SACD
Release date2011-04-07
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time58:04

Classics Today 10/10, highest rating: "A mandatory acquisition"; BBC Music Magazine: Choice of the Month July 2011: Diapason d'or de l'année 2011; Music Web International: Recording of the Month June 2011; Klassik.com double 5, double 4 stars, May 2013.


Throughout his 82-year life, Max Bruch remained true to the musical ideals of his youth, formed by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and German folk songs. As a result, the same composer who in the 1880’s was regarded as Brahms’ equal, by the time of his death in 1920 was considered an anachronistic irrelevance. Nowadays, however, few would deny that his production includes numerous works of exquisite sonority, beautiful melodiousness and admirable formal cohesion: a glorious irrelevance indeed.

His Violin Concerto No. 1 was a spectacular success from its first performance in 1868, and soon won over audiences both in Germany and abroad. In fact, it became so popular that Bruch in later years became increasingly worried about being considered a ‘one-hit wonder’. It is thus a staple of all violin soloists that Vadim Gluzman here takes on, after his recordings of the concertos by Tchaikovsky (‘without doubt one of the work's finest recordings in recent years’, BBC Music Magazine), Barber (‘one of the most beautiful and characterful recordings of this work’, klassik-heute.de) and Korngold (‘Gluzman’s playing lends the work a new vitality and cohesion’, Classica).

Supported by the eminent Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director Andrew Litton, Gluzman couples the work with a rarity, a violin version of the Romance in F major, Op.85, composed by Bruch for viola and orchestra almost 35 years after the violin concerto. The composer also made an arrangement for violin and piano, and it is this violin part which Gluzman performs to the original orchestral score. Closing the programme is the String Quintet in A minor in which Gluzman is joined by four eminent string players: Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava and Reinis Birznieks. Composed in 1918, the Quintet certainly offers no indication of being the exact contemporary of modernist works such as Stravinsky’s Histoire d’un soldat; on the other hand its almost youthful energy, dramatic instinct and playful exuberance equally belies the fact that it was composed by a man in his eightieth year.
 
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  Composer: Max Bruch
  Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 24:11
01 I. Prelude: Allegro moderato 08:15 $ 1.73 USD
02 II. Adagio 08:36 $ 1.81 USD
03 III. Finale: Allegro energico 07:20 $ 1.54 USD
 
04 Romanze in F major, Op. 85 08:30 $ 1.79 USD
 
  String Quintet in A minor 23:48
05 I. Allegro 09:41 $ 2.03 USD
06 II. Allegro molto 03:27 $ 0.72 USD
07 III. Adagio non troppo 04:00 $ 0.84 USD
08 IV. Allegro 06:40 $ 1.40 USD
 
  Album total 58:04
ComposerMax Bruch
ViolinSandis Steinbergs
Vadim Gluzman
ConductorAndrew Litton
OrchestraBergen Philharmonic Orchestra
CelloReinis Birznieks
ViolaIlze Klava
Maxim Rysanov

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