Bruch Violin Concerto G minor Op. 26 Henle Urtext

Bruch Violin Concerto G minor Op. 26 Henle Urtext

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 in an Urtext edition from Henle. Bruch himself was not always overjoyed at his work's popularity saying:

'I can't listen to this concerto anymore ... do you suppose I've only written one concerto?'

to his publisher Simrock.

Nevertheless it 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?

Also available:

Bosworth Violin & Piano reduction

Breitkopf Full score, Study score

Eulenberg Study score

Henle

Peters violin & piano reduction or ed. Menuhin

Schirmer Violin & Piano reduction, Three Romantic Violin Concertos (inc. Bruch, Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky)

Vinyl: Mendelssohn / Bruch Violin Concertos - Itzhak Perlman, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink Vinyl 12 inch Album

CD: Nathan Milstein Mendelssohn/Tchaikovsky/Bruch  Violin Concertos Naxos CD

I Vorspiel: Allegro moderato

II Adagio 

III Finale: Allegro energico