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I may have missed it, but I don’t recall seeing a line of people creeping down Fifth Avenue waiting to be the first to own
Zara Nelsova was an exceptional cellist and a remarkable personality.
Ernest Bloch’s two tone poems for cello and orchestra, Schelomo and Voice in the Wilderness, make logical disc mates. Stylistically they are quite similar—lusciously scored
Ernest Bloch’s orchestral music is pretty wonderful, and this disc shows off his range with particular success. True, the Poèmes are largely slow and droopy,
Written in 1920 and 1922, Bloch’s violin sonatas are among the finest of the past century. The First is a Bartókian virtuoso piece whose slashing
This is a wonderful disc. Zina Schiff plays this music with exceptional passion and commitment, which is really what Bloch is all about. Her tempos
There’s a little joke behind the innocuous name of Ernest Bloch’s Symphony in E-flat. It is, in truth, one of his most harmonically acerbic works,
Ernest Bloch’s three suites for solo cello are wonderful works, and Emmanuelle Bertrand is a wonderful cellist. She plays these pieces as well as anyone,
Vadim Gluzman is a fine player, no doubt about it. He has a particularly rich and full-throated forte, but there are moments in piano (as
Ernest Bloch’s Violin Concerto is rarely encountered in the concert hall despite its abundance of color, melody, emotional substance, and virtuoso opportunities. Fortunately, there are
