“Music is the Language of God”
Max Bruch
Celebrating his 75th birthday in , the legendary violinist Joseph Joachim declared that Germany had four great violin concertos. Among the four—of course including the superb singular efforts in this genre by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms—Joachim also included the G-minor concerto by Max Bruch (). He even suggested that Bruch had written the richest and most seductive violin concerto of them all. Bruch composed this concerto during his time as music director to the court at Koblenz, and as we celebrate the centennial of his death in , his name is still primarily associated with the G-minor concerto. Most of his other compositions, although written in the same highly personal and lyrical Romantic style, have fallen into obscurity. Critics have relegated Bruch to the status of a minor master. To be sure, Bruch was no groundbreaking- revolutionary, as his compositional style never wavered throughout his long career. He emerged on the German music scene dominated by Mendelssohn, lived under the shadow of Wagner and Brahms, and died within a decade of the first performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire.
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Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Like many composers, Max Bruch was captivated by both the idea and the sound of folk music. Nowhere is this more evident than in his Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra.
This work received its UK premiere while Bruch was rather grumpily in charge of the Liverpool Philharmonic in
Despite the fact that Bruch was a virtual stranger to Scotland at the time he wrote his Scottish Fantasy, there is nothing to suggest that the work is based on anything other than wholly authentic Scottish melodies. Its opening movement uses ‘Auld Rob Morris’; from there, we move on to ‘Dusty Miller’, before ‘I’m down for lack of Johnnie’ in the third movement and, to conclude, the ebullient ‘Scots Wha Hae’ in the finale.
Interestingly, Bruch uses a harp in the Scottish Fantasy – strongly suggesting he thought the instrument was a central part of authentic Scottish folk music. Whether he had actually heard a Celtic harp played at the time he wrote the piece is still very much open to debate.
Recommended Recording
Tasmin Little (violin); Royal Scottish National Orchestra;Vernon Handley (conductor).
Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Context
Max Bruch was born on January 6th in Cologne. He received early musical training by pianist and composer, Ferdinand Hiller. Unlike quite a large proportion of classical musicians, Bruch&#;s family were very supportive of his music studies, and were often pushing him to take it one step further in the education ladder. Perhaps due to this, Bruch&#;s compositional output is large and covers many different genres including sacred and secular settings of songs pslams and motets, violin sonatas, piano works, orchestral works and chamber music for strings.
The premiere of Scottish Fantasy, was in Liverpool on February 22nd , with Bruch conducting the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, with violinist Joseph Joachim playing the solo part. However, Bruch was unhappy with Joachim&#;s performance of his work, and he said that he had &#;ruined the work.&#; From there on, Sarasate began playing the solo part, which pleased Bruch a lot more.
The Music
As alluded to in the title, the four movements of this work are built on Scottish folk melodies. Below are the movements and the folk melodies they take inspiration from:
- Introduction; G
블로그
▶Jascha Heifetz - Scottish Fantasy (스코틀랜드 환상곡), Op. 46, Ⅲ. Andante sostenuto
▶Jascha Heifetz - Scottish Fantasy (스코틀랜드 환상곡), Op. 46, Ⅰ~Ⅳ악장
<Scottish Fantasy(스코틀랜드 환상곡) E♭장조, Op>은
년 막스 브루흐(Max Bruch, )가 작곡한
바이올린과 오케스트라를 위한 곡으로
그 해 함부르크의 ‘바흐 음악제’에서
사라사테에 의해 초연되고 그에게 헌정되었다.
본래 제목은
<Fantasy for Violin with Orchestra and Harp,
freely using Scottish folk melodies
(스코틀랜드 민속 선율을 사용한 바이올린과 관현악,
그리고 하프를 위한 환상곡)>이다.
브루흐는 년경 스코츠 박물관에서 제임스 존슨과 로버트 번즈가 편집한 곡의 스코틀랜드 민요 선집(Anthology)을 발견하고 스코틀랜드 민요에 흥미를 가지게 되었으며, 스코틀랜드 출신의 작가 월터 스코트(Walter Scott)의 작품에서 영감을 얻어 ~년, 영국 리버풀 필하모니 협회의 음악감독(~83)으로 부임하기 직전에 <스코틀랜드 환상곡>
을 작곡했다.
이 곡은 4악장의 환상곡(幻想曲)으로 브루흐는 스코틀랜드 민요를 면밀히 연구하여 그 선율에 그리움의 정서 및 향수를
작곡에 반영했다고 한다.
‘선율’이야말로 음악에서 절대적인 존재라고 믿었던 그는 특히 민요선율에 주목하여 20대 중반부터 영국을 포함한 세
계 각지의 민요들을 꾸준히 연구했다. 그는 하나의 좋은 민요선율이 2백 개의 다른 음악선율보다 훨씬 더 가치가 있다
고 단언했으며, 민요가 지닌 내면성, 잠재력, 독창성, 그리고 아름다움은 그의 창작의 원천이 되었다.
스코틀랜드 민속 음악에 기반을 둔 4악장의 환상곡은 "Hey Tuttie Tatie"를 밝게 편곡한 부분이 삽입되었고, 이 곡은
로버트 번즈가 가사를 붙여 국가 "Scots Wha Hae"로도 편
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