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

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?