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In the early digital era, fans of central European late Romantic orchestral music were given for the first time in recorded history an actual choice of recordings of the three symphonies of Max Bruch: those by Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on Philips and these by James Conlon and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln on EMI. At the time, most listeners assumed that Masur and the Leipzig orchestra had a lock on the works; they were, after all, the pre-eminent representatives of East German music-making and if they couldn't make Bruch's scores come alive, who could? But as time proved, Masur and his Leipzig orchestra were only able to turn in warm-hearted, well-played but essentially generic accounts of the works that did nothing to elevate their status in the repertoire. But Conlon and his Cologne orchestra turn in not only warm-hearted, well-played accounts but strongly profiled readings that made the works seem much more successful and important than Masur and his crew. Here, Bruch sounds like a highly talented composer who knew how to come up with a good theme and what to do with it; in other words, the same composer who wrote the Scottish Fantasy and the G minor Violin Concerto. In these performances, each symphony holds up well separately and all three together make a better case for Bruch as a first-rate second-rank composer than his violin concertos. The coupling of the same composer's highly unusual but wholly effective Concerto for two pianos, plus two sets of his solo piano pieces, adds to our knowledge of the Bruch's works and to the total playing time of these two discs.
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Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
DISC 2
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
Gerd Berg, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - Hartwig Paulsen, Engineer - James Conlon, Conductor, MainArtist - Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1993 Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH
John Willan, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Antal Dorati, Conductor, MainArtist - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, FeaturedArtist - Nathan Twining, Piano, FeaturedArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
John Willan, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Antal Dorati, Conductor, MainArtist - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, FeaturedArtist - Nathan Twining, Piano, FeaturedArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
John Willan, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Antal Dorati, Conductor, MainArtist - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, FeaturedArtist - Nathan Twining, Piano, FeaturedArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
John Willan, Producer - Max Bruch, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Antal Dorati, Conductor, MainArtist - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, FeaturedArtist - Nathan Twining, Piano, FeaturedArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974 Parlophone Records Limited. Remastered 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Max Bruch, Composer - George Sponhaltz, Producer - Martin Berkofsky, Piano, MainArtist
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1974, 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
Album review
In the early digital era, fans of central European late Romantic orchestral music were given for the first time in recorded history an actual choice of recordings of the three symphonies of Max Bruch: those by Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra on Philips and these by James Conlon and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln on EMI. At the time, most listeners assumed that Masur and the Leipzig orchestra had a lock on the works; they were, after all, the pre-eminent representatives of East German music-making and if they couldn't make Bruch's scores come alive, who could? But as time proved, Masur and his Leipzig orchestra were only able to turn in warm-hearted, well-played but essentially generic accounts of the works that did nothing to elevate their status in the repertoire. But Conlon and his Cologne orchestra turn in not only warm-hearted, well-played accounts but strongly profiled readings that made the works seem much more successful and important than Masur and his crew. Here, Bruch sounds like a highly talented composer who knew how to come up with a good theme and what to do with it; in other words, the same composer who wrote the Scottish Fantasy and the G minor Violin Concerto. In these performances, each symphony holds up well separately and all three together make a better case for Bruch as a first-rate second-rank composer than his violin concertos. The coupling of the same composer's highly unusual but wholly effective Concerto for two pianos, plus two sets of his solo piano pieces, adds to our knowledge of the Bruch's works and to the total playing time of these two discs.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 23 track(s)
- Total length: 02:23:51
- Main artists: Antal Doráti James Conlon Nathan Twining Martin Berkofsky
- Composer: Max Bruch
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Collection: Gemini
A Warner Classics release, © 2009 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics release, ℗ 2009 Parlophone Records Limited
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