At long last we are able to offer you Max Bruch’s complete oeuvre for violin and orchestra in a boxed set, at a special low price, and in performances by the superb violinist Antje Weithaas!

Bruch’s friendships, first with Joachim and then with Sarasate, inspired him so very much that he produced a violin compositional contingent forming what is by far the largest work group within his symphonic music: three concertos (or, including the four-movement Serenade, actually four), the Fantasy, a concertino, and various other compositions – all of them high points in the concert literature of the nineteenth century. Now this is a little violin concerto cosmos all of its own! And when such a so very gifted artist rouses these ‘sleeping beauties’ from their slumber, we can speak of nothing less than magic as in a fairy tale.

‘In this respect, the violinist Antje Weithaas and the NDR Radio Philharmonic under the conductor Herbert Bäumer make all our wishes come true on Vol. 2 of the recording of Max Bruch’s complete works for violin and orchestra. Flawless tone culture and an infallible feeling for style are combined with a carefully thought-out and finely nuanced rhetoric that is free of ostentatious extravaganzas.’ – klassik-heute.com 07/2015

‘Yet another compelling Bruch recording with a lot of loving attention to detail.’ – klassik.com 08/2015