Bruch: Symphonies Nos. 1-3

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This is a lovely cycle. Max Bruch’s reputation still surely rests on his First Violin Concerto and on the Scottish Fantasy. That won’t change. But Bruch’s special brand of solemnity, his blossoming... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020 More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: 555252-2
Label: CPO
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

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Bruch: Symphony No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 28

Work length38:04

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Robert Trevino

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length10:32

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II. Intermezzo. Andante con moto

Track length7:13

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III. Scherzo. Presto

Track length5:00

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IV. Quasi Fantasia. Grave

Track length7:30

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V. Finale. Allegro guerriero

Track length7:49

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Bruch: Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 36

Work length39:22

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Robert Trevino

I. Allegro passionata, ma un poco maestoso

Track length15:02

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II. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length13:23

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III. Allegro molto tranquillo

Track length10:57

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Bruch: Hermione, Op. 40

Work length17:58

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Robert Trevino

Prelude

Track length8:59

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Funeral March

Track length6:19

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Entr'acte

Track length2:40

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Bruch: Die Loreley: Overture

Work length5:00

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Robert Trevino

Excerpt, Bruch: Odysseus, Op. 41: Prelude

Work length9:54

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Robert Trevino

Bruch: Symphony No. 3 in E major, Op. 51

Work length38:36

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Bamberger Symphoniker
Robert Trevino

I. Andante sostenuto

Track length13:10

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II. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length12:08

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III. Scherzo

Track length6:43

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IV. Finale

Track length6:35

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Max Bruch’s three symphonies, composed between 1868 and 1882, were originally intended as a series of works forming a trilogy. However, Max Bruch set aside the third part in order to focus on dramatic and choral symphonic projects. He first wanted to write his second opera, Hermione after The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, and Odysseus, his first secular oratorio. As things turned out, the spectacular long-term success of these musical pictures from antiquity meant that his original symphonic project was relegated to the back burner. However, once we experience the three sister works in their originally planned context, as the present new production enables us to do, the tide turns in their favour. The revealing path from the heroic idea underlying the first symphony, which, by the way, we are presenting for the first time in its original five-movement version, over the tragic stance of the second symphony, to the "Rhine idyll" of the third symphony leads us to the realization that this triad deserves much more credit than its meagre performance figures would make us believe.

Reviews

Nov/Dec 2020

This is a lovely cycle. Max Bruch’s reputation still surely rests on his First Violin Concerto and on the Scottish Fantasy. That won’t change. But Bruch’s special brand of solemnity, his blossoming tone painting, his French horn serenity and rich string warmth, as we encounter them in the symphonies and overtures, offers found gold of its own.

August 2020

Bruch’s three symphonies are a gift to a sympathetic interpreter, and Robert Trevino joins a select group of conductors who have succeeded in making these awkward but intensely lovable works sing…But the main selling-point here is the playing of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; a real asset in music that needs to glow from within...This is music of rolling vistas, sunlit hillsides and good wine, and the sound of the Bambergers suits it beautifully.

25th June 2020

[The First Symphony is] easily the least convincing of the three; in their quiet way the second and third, finished in 1870 and 1887 respectively, are much more rewarding, and need just the kind of sympathetic handling they get from Robert Trevino and the Bamberg Symphony.

Bruch: Symphonies Nos. 1-3

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