Bloch: Supplication (From Jewish Life)

Bloch: Supplication (From Jewish Life) played by Eva Maria Hux, cello and Anna Buchenhorst, piano.

Ernest Bloch composed his three pieces From Jewish Life in 1924 and dedicated the set to Hans Kindler, solo cellist of the New York Philharmonic, who had previously given the successful premiere of the Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra "Schelomo" (Solomon), Bloch's best known work. Along with the suite Baal Shem (1923), and the Méditation hébraïque (1924), the triptych From Jewish Life belongs to a distinctive and unmistakable genus of pieces, in which Bloch's personal voice was now powerfully established as being "Jewish" in utterance above all else.

The overall atmosphere is one of intense sadness and introspection, and the series is concerned far less with virtuosity than with the peculiar power of expression that invariably distinguished such archaic and timeless themes as Bloch chose to employ in this work.

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Видео Bloch: Supplication (From Jewish Life) канала Anna Buchenhorst