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Review by JJ September 14, 2010 (2 of 4 found this review helpful)
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Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) was a composer, violinist, pianist, and conductor, and today his work remains not very well known. Still, in the domain of chamber music, “some, like Georges Enesco, called him the “Berlioz of chamber music,” states Harry Halbreich. It should be said, he writes, that the five quartets, the two quintets, the two sonatas for alto and piano, and the testament of the composer that is the six suites for solo strings (two for violin, one for alto, three for cello) constitute a corpus whose importance to the 20th century is no less than Bartók’s or Schoenberg’s.” The program on this stereo and DSD multichannel recording includes “From Jewish Life” dating fro 1924, “Nigum” in its transcription for cello and piano, “Hebrew Meditation” also from 1924, “The Voice in the Desert” in its original version for cello and piano dating from 1935, “Visions and Prophesies” for piano from 1936, as well as the “Suite N°3” for Solo Cello dating from 1957. Michal Kanka and Miguel Borges Coelho are nothing less than sublime. Their playing of rare depth calls forth emotion rarely attained. What rare joy it is to hear Bloch’s music reveal itself to our ears as never before, played with necessary natural. Here is an enchanting chamber music SACD you will return to often.
Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman
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