Program Notes
Concerto
Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto is one of the greatest success stories in the history of music. The great violinist Joseph Joachim compared it with the other famous 19th century German violin concertos, those of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, but said it was ‘the richest, the most seductive.’ And yet, it is virtually the only work by which Bruch is still remembered...