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	Peter Bruns, Roglit Ishay Bloch: Works for Cello Genres: New Age, Classical Once past the Impressionist-influenced works of his youth, Ernest Bloch's music is typified by two major strains--emotionally direct reflections of his Jewish heritage and an American-tinged modernism, often affected by ne... more » « less
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All Artists: Peter Bruns, Roglit Ishay
Title: Bloch: Works for Cello
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Opus 111
Release Date: 5/9/2000
Genres: New Age, Classical
Styles: Meditation, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 709861302321

Synopsis

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Once past the Impressionist-influenced works of his youth, Ernest Bloch's music is typified by two major strains--emotionally direct reflections of his Jewish heritage and an American-tinged modernism, often affected by neo-classicism and his lifelong devotion to Bach. Both of those musical paths are evident in this well-recorded disc of Bloch's cello music, brilliantly played by Peter Bruns. He fully captures the unbridled emotionalism of the Jewish pieces, inflecting the plaintive, soulful melodies with cantorial melismas, ably partnered by pianist Roglit Ishay. The three Suites, mature pieces from 1956-57, are tougher works, technically demanding and structurally complex. Bruns's playing here is stunning. He brings structural clarity to them, along with tonal and rhythmic variety and breathtaking technical wizardry. In the process, he rescues them from the fringes of the repertory. An outstanding disc! --Dan Davis

CD Reviews

Bruns Masters Bloch

Edward L. Killham | Washington, DC USA | 05/31/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Peter Bruns, a young Berliner and a devotee of JS Bach, has earned his reputation as an ardent cellist. On this CD, he is solidly accompanied by Roglit Ishay at the piano in an eloquent performance of Ernest Bloch's "Meditations Hebraiques." The composer conceived some of his most poignant melodies in these interpretations of his "enigmatic Jewish soul" and Bruns draws highly evocative sounds from his instrument, built by the master Carlo Tanoni in Vienna in 1730. Bloch and the two performing artists then merge the sonorities of Jewish spirituality with a display of baroque technique in a fitting tribute to Bach, via three suites for unaccompanied cello. In the concluding selection, Ms. Ishay joins Mr. Bruns for "Three Pictures of Chassidic Life - Contrition, Improvisation, and Rejoicing.""