It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto in g minor. Now it’s appearing at last in an urtext edition from Henle. Bruch himself was not always overjoyed at his work’s popularity: "I can’t listen to this concerto anymore," he once complained to his publisher Simrock, "do you suppose I’ve only written one concerto?" By now the Bruch Concerto has found a permanent place in the world’s concert halls. Henle’s edition provides not only a razor-sharp urtext for the solo part, but a preface that alone is worth the price of the volume: who could have guessed that the concerto went through a convoluted genesis with multi-layered revisions, and that some of the changes go back to the famous violinist Joseph Joachim?
它使創作者名揚世界,並為標準曲目增添了一部傑作:馬克斯·布魯赫的g小調第一小提琴協奏曲。如今,亨勒出版社終於推出了這部作品的原始版本。布魯赫本人並非一直樂見其作品的流行:「我再也聽不下去這首協奏曲了,」他曾向出版商西姆羅克抱怨道,「難道你以為我只寫過一首協奏曲嗎?」如今,布魯赫協奏曲已在世界各地的音樂廳中佔據了一席之地。亨勒出版社的版本不僅提供了獨奏部分的精準原始樂譜,其序言本身就值回票價:誰又能想到,這部協奏曲的創作過程竟如此曲折,經歷了多次修改,而其中一些改動甚至可以追溯到著名小提琴家約瑟夫·約阿希姆?