Ernest Bloch

Bloch was 73 years old when the String Quartet No. 3 was premiered in 1953 by the Griller Quartet. It is far more 'pared-down' than his earlier works, and avoids the influence of Jewish music which he...

Solos for Young Cellists is an eight-volume series of music compilations with companion CDs. The series ranges from elementary to advanced levels and represents a truly exciting variety of musical gen...

A Setting of Psalm 22 with French translation by Edmond Fleg and English version by Waldo Frank. A reduction of the work for Baritone Solo and Orchestra.

Sopran und Klavier

The Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra 'Schelomo' is the best-known work of Ernst Bloch's 'Jewish Cycle. ' Bloch explains:

Just under nine minutes in length, Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch's 'Scherzo Fantasque' is a short tour de force for solo Piano and orchestra. It is unusually showy and diversionary for a g...

For orchestra with cello obbligato.

A masterly composer of music for strings, Bloch wrote four string quartets, Schelomo--A Hebrew Rhapsody (for cello and orchestra), and A Voice in the Wilderness (for orchestra and cello obbligato), wh...

With this 1913 work, Ernest Bloch inaugurated his so-called 'Jewish cycle', though apart from an emphasis on the augmented second (characteristic of cantorial melody) these poems are not particularly...

This symphony, from Bloch's 'Jewish Period' evokes two Jewish traditional celebrations, 'Yom Kippur' (Day of Atonement) and 'Succoth' (Celebration of Harvest). It does this not by using traditional Je...

Symphonic suite for orchestra.

This is one of the most dramatic of chamber pieces. Its opening movement is propulsive, its questing first subject beginning with declamatory five-note motive which rises and falls spikily, then repea...

This is one of the most dramatic of chamber pieces. Its opening movement is propulsive, its questing first subject beginning with declamatory five-note motive which rises and falls spikily, then repea...

Klavierauszug mit Solostimme

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For String Orchestra or String Quartet.

Concerto Grosso No. 1 was the first of two concerti grossi by Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), who wrote the piece in response to his students' assertion that such traditional styles...