Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, Kol Nidrei numbers among Max Bruch's most famous compositions. The melancholy Adagio after Hebrew melodies was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert Hausmann. It treats two old Jewishsongs whose extraordinary beauty proved deeply moving to the Protestant Bruch, by his own admission. The tenor cello sound is the ideal medium for the voice of a Jewish cantor, and thus to this day Kol Nidrei offers every cellista wonderful opportunity to make the instr