Bloch: Israel Symphony, Suite for Viola & Orchestra / Atlas

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 12, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BLOCH, ERNEST
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Slovak Radio Symphony Orc
    • PERFORMER
      Kohutkova, Kramolisova, Babjakova, Hamarova, Macuha, Gandelsman, Gamerata
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 12, 2014
    • UPC
      747313328376
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573283
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Concertos
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lent et solennel

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas

    2. II. Allegro agitato

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas

    3. III. Moderato (andante grazioso)

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Adriana Kohútková, Katarina Kramolisova, Terezia Bajakova, Denisa Hamarova, Michal Macuha

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas

    4. I. Lento - Allegro - Moderato

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Atlas Camerata Orchestra

      Performer: Yuri Gandelsman

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas

    5. II. Allegro ironico

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Atlas Camerata Orchestra

      Performer: Yuri Gandelsman

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas

    6. III. Lento

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Atlas Camerata Orchestra

      Performer: Yuri Gandelsman

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas

    7. IV. Molto vivo

      Composer: Ernest Bloch

      Ensemble: Atlas Camerata Orchestra

      Performer: Yuri Gandelsman

      Conductor: Dalia Atlas


Bloch’s so-called Jewish Cycle—the Israel Symphony, Schelomo, Trois Poèmes Juifs and the String Quartet—earned the composer the kind of esteem in America that had been lacking in Europe. The Israel Symphony, premièred in Carnegie Hall in 1917, is the cycle’s centrepiece and originally intended as a gigantic three-part work, but later reduced in size. Powerful and evocative, it also fuses pastoral and sensuous elements in a rich tapestry. The award-winning Suite for Viola and orchestra or piano is a rhapsodic but cyclical tour de force, a ‘vision of the Far East’, in Bloch’s own words.