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Donald Macleod takes us inside the Bruch family home and explores his different sides as a family man and teacher.

鈥淥nly true melody outlasts all changes and shifts of time鈥� 鈥� so said this week鈥檚 composer, Max Bruch, the creator of what may be the world鈥檚 best-loved violin concerto. But Bruch would hate us to think of him as a one hit wonder. He even came to resent the very sound of his first Violin concerto, the only piece by which he鈥檚 often remembered. All this week, Donald Macleod colours in Bruch鈥檚 life story and reveals the breadth of his output, including some of his lesser-heard music.

Today we enter his new chapter as a father of four, and professor of composition in Berlin. As well as the Bruchs' family dramas and regular open house soirees, we hear how he finally returned to writing chamber music, discovering the joy of writing for new instruments through his children.

8 Pieces for Clarinet, viola and piano, Op 83 No 2
Philon Trio

In der Nacht, Op 72
Darmstadt Concert Choir
Wolfgang Seeliger, conductor

4 Pieces, Op 70 (i. Aria)
Nash Ensemble
Octet (i. allegro moderato)
Kod谩ly Quartet
Auer String Quartet
Zsolt Fejervari, double bass

Concerto for Two Pianos (iv. Andante- Allegro)
Katia and Marielle Labeque, piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Double Concerto for clarinet and viola
Jean-Luc Votano, clarinet
Arnaud Thorette, viola
Orchestre Philharmonique De Li猫ge
Pascal Roph茅, conductor

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