Bruch: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra

Bäumer, Hermann, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Weithaas, Antje

CPO 555 509-2

The Complete Bruch with Antje Weithaas

At long last we are able to offer you Max Bruch’s Complete Oeuvre for Violin and Orchestra in a boxed set, at a special low price, and in performances by the superb violinist Antje Weithaas! Bruch’s friendships, first with Joachim and then with Sarasate, inspired him so very much that he produced a violin compositional contingent forming what is by far the largest work group within his symphonic music: three concertos (or, including the four-movement Serenade, actually four), the Fantasy, a Concertino, and various other compositions – all of them high points in the concert literature of the nineteenth century. Now this is a little violin concerto cosmos all of its own! And when such a so very gifted artist rouses these »sleeping beauties« from their slumber, we can speak of nothing less than magic as in a fairy tale.

klassik-heute. com 07 / 2015: »In this respect, the violinist Antje Weithaas and the NDR Radio Philharmonic under the conductor Herbert Bäumer make all our wishes come true on Vol. 2 of the recording of Max Bruch’s complete works for violin and orchestra. Flawless tone culture and an infallible feeling for style are combined with a carefully thought-out and finely nuanced rhetoric that is free of ostentatious extravaganzas.«

klassik. com 08 / 2015: »Yet another compelling Bruch recording with a lot of loving attention to detail.«

CD x 3

CPO

3.12.2021

761203550920