WDR Happy Hour – Capuçon

A composer who rejects his own work? There was such a thing - in the case of Max Bruch, who would have preferred to ban the performance of his first violin concerto. It didn't help: to this day, it is one of the most popular works of its kind - and a real hit in the oeuvre of the romantic composer who, by the way, was born at the Neumarkt in Cologne. In the Happy Hour, it stands next to Richard Strauss' racy tone poem about the seducer of women, "Don Juan." And with a resonant portrait of the seductress Salomé, one of the most brilliant female composers speaks out: Mel Bonis, during whose lifetime her male colleagues had to grudgingly acknowledge her talent.