Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

Description

• Composer: Max Bruch (1838-1920)
• Editor: Michael Kube
• Fingering: Kurt Guntner
• Piano reduction: Johannes Umbreit
• Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Violin
• Originally for: Violin, Orchestra
• Work: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790201807089
• Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
• Pages: 68
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto in G Minor. Bruch himself was not always overjoyed at his work’s popularity: “I can’t listen to this concerto anymore,” he once complained to his publisher Simrock, “do you suppose I’ve only written one concerto?” By now the Bruch Concerto has found a permanent place in the world’s concert halls. Henle’s edition provides not only a razor-sharp urtext for the solo part, but a preface that alone is worth the price of the volume: who could have guessed that the concerto went through a convoluted genesis with multi-layered revisions, and that some of the changes go back to the famous violinist Joseph Joachim?