MAX BRUCH

Violin Concerto g minor op. 26

Michael Kube (Editor)

Johannes Umbreit (Piano reduction)

Kurt Guntner (Fingering and bowing for Violin)

Urtext Edition, Piano reduction, paperbound

with marked and unmarked string parts

Orchestral material from Breitkopf & Härtel

Pages 75 (VII+34+17+17), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm

Weight 354 g

HN 708 · ISMN 979-0-2018-0708-9

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 an urtext 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?" 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?