As you may have noticed, in this blog I mainly focus on an unfairly overlooked music – one that collects dust on shelves, figuratively speaking. No matter what, during revisions it is always possible to find something unexpectedly interesting at the attic. The same with music – sooner or later listeners start appreciating what they were abandoning before and find themselves wondering why they haven’t heard such a marvelous piece before.
As today I’m going to write about Max Bruch, quite well-known Romantic composer, many of you may wonder what kind of neglect his music met at all. Well, I don’t say it happened to all of it but as for Kol Nidrei, this piece was not present in a concert repertoire for quite long. Despite Bruch himself was neither Jew nor did he considered this his work to be Jewish to the core – he only was influenced by Hebrew motives, – it was forgotten since National Socialists came into power, for reasons quite obvious. Still Kol Nidrei is a very recommendable work, and I want to bring to your attention an arrangement for violin or cello and piano (originally it was written for cello and orchestra). Here it is: Kol Nidrei (Arrangement for Violin or Cello and Piano), Op.47. Enjoy the music.
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