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Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1, Romanze, String Quintet / Gluzman, Litton, Bergen PO
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Details
- Composer
- BRUCH, MAX
- Artist
- Andrew, Vadim, Litton, Gluzman
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- BIS
- Released
- Mar 01, 2011
- Catalog #
- BIS-SACD-1852
- UPC
- 7318599918525
About
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Throughout his 82-year life, Max Bruch remained true to the musical ideals of his youth, formed by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and German folk songs. As a result, the same composer who in the 1880’s was regarded as Brahms’ equal, by the time of his death in 1920 was considered an anachronistic irrelevance. Nowadays, however, few would deny that his production includes numerous works of exquisite sonority, beautiful melodiousness and admirable formal cohesion: a glorious irrelevance indeed. His Violin Concerto No. 1 was a spectacular success from its first performance in 1868, and soon won over audiences both in Germany and abroad. In fact, it became so popular that Bruch in later years became increasingly worried about being considered a ‘one-hit wonder’. It is thus a staple of all violin soloists that Vadim Gluzman here takes on, after his recordings of the concertos by Tchaikovsky (‘without doubt one of the work's finest recordings in recent years’, BBC Music Magazine), Barber (‘one of the most beautiful and characterful recordings of this work’, klassik-heute.de) and Korngold (‘Gluzman’s playing lends the work a new vitality and cohesion’, Classica). Supported by the eminent Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director Andrew Litton, Gluzman couples the work with a rarity, a violin version of the Romance in F major, Op.85, composed by Bruch for viola and orchestra almost 35 years after the violin concerto. The composer also made an arrangement for violin and piano, and it is this violin part which Gluzman performs to the original orchestral score. Closing the programme is the String Quintet in A minor in which Gluzman is joined by four eminent string players: Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava and Reinis Birznieks. Composed in 1918, the Quintet certainly offers no indication of being the exact contemporary of modernist works such as Stravinsky’s Histoire d’un soldat; on the other hand its almost youthful energy, dramatic instinct and playful exuberance equally belies the fact that it was composed by a man in his eightieth year.
Throughout his 82-year life, Max Bruch remained true to the musical ideals of his youth, formed by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and German folk songs. As a result, the same composer who in the 1880’s was regarded as Brahms’ equal, by the time of his death in 1920 was considered an anachronistic irrelevance. Nowadays, however, few would deny that his production includes numerous works of exquisite sonority, beautiful melodiousness and admirable formal cohesion: a glorious irrelevance indeed. His Violin Concerto No. 1 was a spectacular success from its first performance in 1868, and soon won over audiences both in Germany and abroad. In fact, it became so popular that Bruch in later years became increasingly worried about being considered a ‘one-hit wonder’. It is thus a staple of all violin soloists that Vadim Gluzman here takes on, after his recordings of the concertos by Tchaikovsky (‘without doubt one of the work's finest recordings in recent years’, BBC Music Magazine), Barber (‘one of the most beautiful and characterful recordings of this work’, klassik-heute.de) and Korngold (‘Gluzman’s playing lends the work a new vitality and cohesion’, Classica). Supported by the eminent Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director Andrew Litton, Gluzman couples the work with a rarity, a violin version of the Romance in F major, Op.85, composed by Bruch for viola and orchestra almost 35 years after the violin concerto. The composer also made an arrangement for violin and piano, and it is this violin part which Gluzman performs to the original orchestral score. Closing the programme is the String Quintet in A minor in which Gluzman is joined by four eminent string players: Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava and Reinis Birznieks. Composed in 1918, the Quintet certainly offers no indication of being the exact contemporary of modernist works such as Stravinsky’s Histoire d’un soldat; on the other hand its almost youthful energy, dramatic instinct and playful exuberance equally belies the fact that it was composed by a man in his eightieth year.
Tracklist 8 tracks
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1 I. Prelude: Allegro moderato 08:15
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Prelude: Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 08:15
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman
- Ensemble
- Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
- Conductor
- Andrew Litton
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2 II. Adagio 08:36
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Adagio
- Duration
- 08:36
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman
- Ensemble
- Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
- Conductor
- Andrew Litton
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3 III. Finale: Allegro energico 07:20
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Finale: Allegro energico
- Duration
- 07:20
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman
- Ensemble
- Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
- Conductor
- Andrew Litton
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4 Romanze in F Major, Op. 85 08:30
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Romanze in F Major, Op. 85
- Duration
- 08:30
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman
- Ensemble
- Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester
- Conductor
- Andrew Litton
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5 I. Allegro 09:41
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Allegro
- Duration
- 09:41
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman, Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava, Reinis Birznieks
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6 II. Allegro molto 03:27
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Allegro molto
- Duration
- 03:27
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman, Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava, Reinis Birznieks
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7 III. Adagio non troppo 04:00
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Adagio non troppo
- Duration
- 04:00
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman, Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava, Reinis Birznieks
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8 IV. Allegro 06:40
- Track
- 8
- Title
- IV. Allegro
- Duration
- 06:40
- Composer
- Max Bruch
- Performer
- Vadim Gluzman, Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava, Reinis Birznieks