A German in Liverpool
Donald Macleod focuses on Bruch's stint in Liverpool as director of the Philharmonic Society. With Penelope's Lament (Odysseus); Scottish Fantasy (excerpts); Kol Nidrei.
Donald Macleod looks at Bruch's stint in Liverpool as Director of the Philharmonic Society. Although he enjoyed domestic life in Sefton Park with his young bride Clara, his relationship with the city was uneasy. While his arrival was much trumpeted in the newspapers, his departure was barely remarked on. He wrote to his former teacher Hiller a year after beginning work there: "I am too much a German, and my whole being and feelings are too deeply rooted in German soil for me ever to consider myself to be at home among the driest, most boring, most unmusical race on earth".
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- Thu 10 Mar 201112:00BBC Radio 3
- Thu 10 Mar 201122:00BBC Radio 3
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