Rating: - ANOTHER WINNER!
This 2-CD set of Bruch's 3 symphonies and five violin pieces is a compilation of downright beautiful music. Bruch's romantic symphonies are exquisitely crafted- chock full of lush themes and wonderful ... Read More
Rating: - Great music
I can't add much to the eloquent comments already posted, but Bruch's symphonies are sweet, relaxing, and surprisingly approachable. I would only wish he had written more.
Rating: - sonorous
Max Bruch did not exhaust the possibilities for romantic, passionate violin performance in concerto. He merely came close.
That astonishing achievement earns this underrated late-Romantic composer ... Read More
Rating: - Fine interpretation of little heard music
Max Bruch's symphonies are not well known, but will be of interest to those who love his music. They are workmanlike, beautiful essays, without quite reaching heights of greatness (although with Kurt Masur's superb ... Read More
Rating: - BEAUTIFUL
It's only a slight reticence in the recorded tone that prevents me from giving the full 5 stars to this 2-disc set. In every other way it has a great deal going for it. Bruch is sadly and most unjustly neglected except ... Read More
- ANOTHER WINNER!
- Fine interpretation of little heard music
- BEAUTIFUL