Max Bruch may have been not the most progressive composer of his time (namely, the 19th century, he was born in 1838), not lastly due to everybody talking about works of his compatriots Wagner and Liszt. As you may know, in his latter works Liszt abandoned the conventional compositional techniques, and overall he was a hard nut to crack – that’s why Bruch just did what he could without trying to overshadow anybody. In his case it worked very well: no matter what, Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 is now one of the most popular works of Romantic era. Without pretending to cause the end of the world (exactly what Scriabin tried to accomplish in his Mysterium) or overthrow academic norms, Max Bruch leisurely composed one of the finest orchestral works, and now you can find it here, for your playing pleasure: Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op.26.
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