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)

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