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The "digital product only" approach is a disturbing and ill-conceived trend; I prefer the CD medium; mainly because they sound better than the lossy mp3's that are most widely commercially available.  (I am no audiophile, but it seems clear to me that classical music, more than any other genre, suffers sonic deficiencies when compressed into an mp3 format.)  I also prefer professionally manufactured CD booklets/liner notes instead of the crude imitations I am able to cobble together through downloading and printing pdf copies (to the extent these are even made available, often they aren't).  The CD booklet is far more important in classical music than other genres that do not utilize liner notes, but this seems to have been mostly forgotten in the mad rush to be "up to date."

So there is a Bruch string quartet older than the Op. 9 in C minor?  Oooooh...interesting.

Another way of looking at it (perhaps) is that the VC1 will likely take up only about a third of the playing time of the disc.  The VC1 takes a little over 20 minutes, the Serenade Op. 75 around 35-40 minutes, and the Romance Op. 42 around 10 minutes.  The presence of a warhorse like the VC1 might be less offensive when one realizes that the majority of the recording will be devoted to the other, more obscure works (although admittedly, neither of those additional works qualifies as completely unsung).

Hyperion appears to be working its way through all the Bruch violin concerti, for completeness' sake.  Just last year it released the VC3 and Scottish Fantasy (No. 17 in the Romantic Violin Concerto series).  The upcoming release faces tough competition indeed, especially with CPO's excellent volume 2 in its own survey of Bruch's works for violin and orchestra which I believe was released less than three months ago.  That one also includes VC1 and has been in heavy rotation on my ipod in recent days, along with the recently released Bis recording of VC2 etc. with Wallin/Kamu.   With all these Bruch recordings coming out at the same time, I think I'm drowning in Bruch...not a bad way to go, actually.