Max Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Opus 26

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 theBruch 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 haveguessed 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?