The Classics a Day team decided October was the month to feature octets. Granted, it is the tenth month of the year, but the word “detects” isn’t as alliterative. The mix of instruments that make up an octet varies. Some composers wrote for double string quartet, some for wind instruments, and some for a blend […]
Max Bruch
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Mona and Rica Bard jumpstart Bruch double piano concerto
This release features two live recordings from a Max Bruch Jubilee Concert. The recorded sound and the performances are first-rate. The Staatskapelle Halle directed by Ariane Matiakh has a warm sound that’s still richly detailed. The audience is so well-behaved that this could pass for a studio recording. For many, Buch is a one-hit-wonder. His […]
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Max Bruch Music for Clarinet and Viola – Late Romantic Goodness
Like his friend and colleague Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch didn’t write for the clarinet until late in his career. For Bruch, it was something personal. His son was an accomplished clarinetist and premiered the works on this release. Although written in the early 1910s, these works are unapologetically Romantic in style. But there’s nothing nostalgic […]
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Arabella Steinbacher: Bruch/Korngold Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher brings together three well-known works that all look to the Romantic Period; the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Chausson’s Poeme, and Eric Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Max Bruch was a staunch defender of the traditional romanticism of Mendelssohn and Brahms, an aesthetic reflected in his most popular work, the Violin Concerto No. 1 in […]