Max Bruch absolutely embodied the Romantic period of Classical music. Every single one of his musical ideas is like a dictionary definition of what it meant to be a Romantic composer – extraordinary, ...
Donald Macleod explores Max Bruch’s violin works. Melody, said Bruch, represents the “soul of music” and nowhere is that better represented than in his famous violin concerto. It’s a work which ...
You have to feel sorry for Max Bruch. He was born in Cologne in 1838, and in spite of some notable successes would spend his life in the shadow of another German composer, the great Johannes Brahms, ...
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Max Bruch resented that his First Violin Concerto (of three) achieved widespread fame while the rest of his output was largely neglected. But with its brooding melodies, unusual form, and joyous ...
Is there much more to Max Bruch’s music than his deservedly much-loved Violin Concerto No.1? Only up to a point, on this evidence at least. Kol Nidrei, here recorded for the first time in its solo ...
The letters shed light on the German musical scene in the second half of the 19th century and its interconnection with cultural, historical, and political developments The Institute of Musicology at ...
The composer Max Bruch will be forever associated with his violin concerto. Recordings of this breathtakingly melodic and shimmeringly sensuous creation are regularly teamed with Mendelssohn's to ...
Poor old Max Bruch: a composer born to spin long lyrical melodies in a culture that demanded that its symphonists be Beethovenian supermen, and whose prickly, defensive personality masked the most ...
Donald Macleod looks at Bruch's relationship with the city of his birth, Cologne. He had a very promising start as a student of Hiller, and then embarked on a career in the wider world, caught up in ...
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