Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor Op. 26 (Henle)

It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch?s First Violin Concerto in g minor. Now it?s appearing at last in anurtext edition from Henle. 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?” Bynow 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?