Two of the familiar keystones of the cello repertoire – Bloch’s Schelomo and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei – are combined here with the lesser known Bloch symphonic poem Voice in the Wilderness and an ...

When you encounter Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo,” you’re struck by an immediate feeling of profundity and deep emotional vulnerability. As cellist Joshua Roman recalls, “The first recording I heard was of ...

Zara Nelsova, a prominent cellist who recorded Ernest Bloch ‘ s ” Schelomo ” for cello and orchestra with the composer conducting and appeared with major orchestras in North America and Europe, died ...

Dabei orientiert sich Bloch an dem Buch des „Prediger Salomo“, das sich unter den biblischen Lehrbüchern und Psalmen findet und mit den berühmten Worten beginnt: „Es ist alles eitel, sprach der ...

In diesem Konzert zum Gedenken an das Ende des 2. Weltkriegs vor 80 Jahren erklang die Sinfonie Nr. 7 "Leningrader" von Dmitrij Schostakowitsch unter Leitung von Chefdirigent Stanislav Kochanovsky ...

For renowned British cellist Raphael Wallfisch, music always has been a family affair. He’s the son of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who helped to found the English Chamber Orchestra. A survivor of ...

At around age 20, Swiss-born composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) began to ponder questions of spirituality and religion, national ethnic identity and his Judaic heritage, all with the additional ...

Ernest Bloch: "Schelomo" und Edward Elgar: "Cellokonzert"; Pierre Fournier (Cello), Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester, Leitung: Alfred Wallenstein; Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft 139 128, 25,– DM.

For all of the attention lavished upon West Coast composers lately, one who has mostly escaped the net is Ernest Bloch. Though Swiss-born, Bloch lived a good deal of his life on the West Coast, ...