Today’s Video of the Day features a performance of Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, by violinist Hans Christian Aavik with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gemma New.

Today, Bruch crosses the Channel and makes his way north to Liverpool to take up the post of conductor of the city’s Philharmonic Society. At first he’s resentful and lonely, but not for long. In his ...