Ernest Bloch
1880–1959. Swiss composer. in the Jewish Nationalism tradition.
Ernest Bloch is best known for his works drawing on Jewish musical heritage and spirituality. Schelomo and Baal Shem are his most frequently performed works. Modest product count but recognizable within classical/Jewish heritage programming.
Signature works: Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life, String Quartet No. 2, Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh), Violin Sonata No. 1.
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Ernest Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody, Suite for Viola a
$20.99CDSignum Classics
Jul 11, 2025SIGCD932
Safe Harbor / U.S. Navy Band Sea Canters Chorus
Discover songs to connect, heal, and inspire on the U.S. Navy Band Sea Canter Chorus’ recording “Safe Harbor”. These musicians have played a vital role in comforting America in times of mourning, and this recording follows in those footsteps
Classical Violin Pearls
Emanuel Feuermann in Concert
The Art of Josef Gingold
Roots: Violin Sonatas from Brazil & Switzerland / Wiedemann, Bokor
Renato Wiedemann is a violin player with Brazilian origin. He has recorded an original programme with works by composers from Brazil and Switzerland.
Notre amour – Pieces for violoncello & piano / Gehweiler, Hengartner
The tradition of bringing out New Year publications on January 2, “Berchtold’s Day”, goes back as far as the 17th century. Societies andguilds provided printed books, illustrations or music to the young people of the city in return for a financial contribution, which went towards the heating of the society rooms. A 2005 CD of piano music by the Winterthur composer Johann Carl Eschmann, whose documents are held in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, marked the revival of the old tradition in a new guise.
The New Year release CD 2024 brings together works by six composers, male and female, all of whom except one were born and trained in French-speaking countries. Even Paul Juon had Romanic roots, since his grandfather had emigrated around 1830 from the Swiss canton of Grisons to Russia. Short pieces have been grouped around César Franck’s Sonata in A major: composed between 1880 and 1924, all – except Ernest Bloch’s three lieder movements From Jewish Life (1924), whose Judaistic timbre became Bloch’s trademark – conform to our present-day perception of a rhapsodic fin-de-siècle sound.
The cellist Isabel Gehweiler is a prizewinner of the European Bursary for Young Artists, the Art Prize of the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg, the Art Prize of the Markgräfler region; she is also a recipient of grants from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), the Juilliard School of Music, the Rotary Foundation, the arteMusica Foundation, the Cultural Foundation of the Saarland region, the Richard Wagner Association, the Covid-19 Grant of the City of Zurich, the Notenstein La Roche Privatbank and the Vontobel Bank. As a composer, Isabel Gehweiler has produced a body of work encompassing chamber music and orchestral compositions, which are regularly performed at international festivals.
Ernest Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody, Suite for Viola a
