Bruch: Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra

Bäumer, Hermann, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Weithaas, Antje

CPO 555509

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

12/3/21

761203550920