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14.4.17

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Max Bruch, Suite on Russian Folk Melodies, Serenade on Swedish Melodies, Swedish Dances


…The folk dances that Bruch works off become buoyant pieces (only very occasionally a bit heavy-footed in the First Orchestral Suite of Swedish Dances) and throughout Bruch applies a light and dainty touch which – if you have given Bruch’s more grandiose efforts like “Odysseus” a try and reeled – is his saving grace. Not aiming quite so high apparently freed him and the music from overwrought pathos to everyone’s benefit…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Swedish Hobbits Dancing To Bruch (NOV 9, 2016)



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Max Bruch, Suite on Russian Folk Melodies, Serenade on Swedish Melodies, Swedish Dances,
Werner Andreas Albert (coductor),
SWR-RO Kaiserslautern,
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