A great performance of a beautiful Concerto. Overlooked so many times. My heart sings for this marvelous piece performed so well by a fine orchestra. Bravo.
Our orchestra is playing this piece and I'm the pianist!! This is an amazing work and a lot to study about it, and the background of the piece is really interesting, everyone should look it up!
Every composition of Ernest Bloch's is like a set of prayers to Hashem that raise our souls towards Heaven, bathed in the light of a response from On High, the more we feel in deeply hearing sacred utterances, answers and questions, without words.
Chez Ernest Bloch l'expression d'une musique élevée est atteinte et c'est une musique qui parle directement à la personne humaine , c'est d'une grande beauté grave , simple et lumineuse , épurée .
A masterful piece of music. Powerful, lyrical, sonorous, poignant, it has it all. Best Bloch piece I have heard so far, and in a wonderful performance. Thank you 1 Thumbs up !!!
Thank you so much for this wonderful recording. I first heard this work thru a friend of mine, a conductor. We were literally up all night following the score and then listening to it again ... especially that beautiful and accessible fugue .. what a text book work... and an even better way to study counterpoint and fugue writing. This is the 3rd performance I've heard.... the first being the recording with score with my friend.... the second .. when he conducted it with the CSUN University Orchestra in Southern CA... and about 35 years later.. now. Thank you again... so very much.
This has been a favorite of mine since I was a teen. It's wonderful to hear that others can spend a night listening to it as I have done many times. But I don't have the score. :-)
Yes. The performance was released on a Chandos CD in 1989, with works for string orchestra by Bloch (Concerto Grosso No.1), Barber (Adagio for Strings Op.11), Grieg (Holberg Suite Op.40), and Puccini (Crisantemi). This CD is still available on Amazon, notably.
Bloch's music is such a fascinating mix of many cultural ideas. It is sometimes Jewish, other times American with folk music, and at other times mystical. I really enjoy this mix. I am so glad that I discovered him here on TH-cam because I had never heard of him even though I have been an NPR listener for many years.
@@darrylschultz6479 what Knapp kin do you mean? Knapp is not a common surname but it is not that uncommon either. Most of my relatives are from the Iowa area.
Well,it's a bit slower and heavier than my ideal, but in compensation, the rich tone and large phrasing more than make up, giving a warm glow, especially in "Dirge." Fine playing thruout.
+Braden Perry Interpretations. Conductor may have wanted a more heavy, weighted sound rather than the scherzo (?) like sound that you might have played it as. :D
Coming fresh to this piece (and what a great surprise it is !) the tempo of the 1st movement seems spot on to me. At 1.25 speed it sounds good also, but it rather loses its poignancy to my ears, sounding somewhat hurried and indiffferent.
A "Mercury Living Presence" Album (CD) was released in 1991. Three works by Bloch are on it: His two Concerto Grossos, plus Schelomo. Howard Hansen conducted the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra in 1959 (the year Bloch died) and 1960. Do not know about its availability.
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A great performance of a beautiful Concerto. Overlooked so many times. My heart sings for this marvelous piece performed so well by a fine orchestra. Bravo.
Our orchestra is playing this piece and I'm the pianist!! This is an amazing work and a lot to study about it, and the background of the piece is really interesting, everyone should look it up!
Every composition of Ernest Bloch's is like a set of prayers to Hashem that raise our souls towards Heaven, bathed in the light of a response from On High, the more we feel in deeply hearing sacred utterances, answers and questions, without words.
Chez Ernest Bloch l'expression d'une musique élevée est atteinte et c'est une musique qui parle directement à la personne humaine , c'est d'une grande beauté grave , simple et lumineuse , épurée .
I don't know much about music but I fall in love this beautiful piece on a first hearing.
Great work. Thumbs up. Hatts off...
A masterful piece of music. Powerful, lyrical, sonorous, poignant, it has it all. Best Bloch piece I have heard so far, and in a wonderful performance. Thank you 1 Thumbs up !!!
Fully agree. In my humble opinion, a much finer piece than Schelomo.
More than any composer, Bloch ranges from the highest Angst to the most profound sweetness.
@@johnlindstrom9994 You have the possibility to edit your original text (see the three points on the right side).
@@dieterpeszat Thanks!
Bravo pour cette vidéo...et un très grand MERCI!!!
Thank you so much for this wonderful recording.
I first heard this work thru a friend of mine, a conductor.
We were literally up all night following the score and then listening to it again ... especially that beautiful and accessible fugue .. what a text book work... and an even better way to study counterpoint and fugue writing.
This is the 3rd performance I've heard.... the first being the recording with score with my friend.... the second .. when he conducted it with the CSUN University Orchestra in Southern CA... and about 35 years later.. now.
Thank you again... so very much.
This has been a favorite of mine since I was a teen. It's wonderful to hear that others can spend a night listening to it as I have done many times. But I don't have the score. :-)
A very lovely, dignified performance of what I consider to be a very great work.
Yes. The performance was released on a Chandos CD in 1989, with works for string orchestra by Bloch (Concerto Grosso No.1), Barber (Adagio for Strings Op.11), Grieg (Holberg Suite Op.40), and Puccini (Crisantemi). This CD is still available on Amazon, notably.
played wonderfully and the sound is gorgeous
Un grand merci pour cette excellente vidéo !
The second movement (3:10) is very beautiful.
Thank you. I'm going to buy the CD right now !
the opening phrases of the third movement, as if G*d reaches His hand down from Heaven to touch our human souls with divine love....
Bloch's music is such a fascinating mix of many cultural ideas. It is sometimes Jewish, other times American with folk music, and at other times mystical. I really enjoy this mix. I am so glad that I discovered him here on TH-cam because I had never heard of him even though I have been an NPR listener for many years.
Are you by any chance elated to the Bloch scholar, Alexander Knapp?
Not as far as I know.
@@brianknapp8645 Should have asked,"Are you A. Knapp kin?"
@@johnlindstrom9994 Should have asked,"Are you A. Knapp kin?"
@@darrylschultz6479 what Knapp kin do you mean? Knapp is not a common surname but it is not that uncommon either. Most of my relatives are from the Iowa area.
This is very good stuff
On the video, the work is performed by the Israel Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Yoav Talmi (on the piano: Irit Rob). Greetings.
Thank you for this extra information. It should have been stated by the uploader. Thank you for the extra work you had to do here.
Well,it's a bit slower and heavier than my ideal, but in compensation, the rich tone and large phrasing more than make up, giving a warm glow, especially in "Dirge." Fine playing thruout.
There's a good cover of this work by New Kids on the Bloch
radical music
isn't the first movement supposed to be faster? I turned the speed to 1.25, and it sounded how I've played it
+Braden Perry Interpretations. Conductor may have wanted a more heavy, weighted sound rather than the scherzo (?) like sound that you might have played it as. :D
Coming fresh to this piece (and what a great surprise it is !) the tempo of the 1st movement seems spot on to me. At 1.25 speed it sounds good also, but it rather loses its poignancy to my ears, sounding somewhat hurried and indiffferent.
I hear reflections of Martinu in this .
Hallo, how can I contact the owner of the copyrights? Could you help, please?
Can we find that performance on CD ?
A "Mercury Living Presence" Album (CD) was released in 1991. Three works by Bloch are on it: His two Concerto Grossos, plus Schelomo. Howard Hansen conducted the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra in 1959 (the year Bloch died) and 1960. Do not know about its availability.
je sens une influence de Bela Bartok dans cette musique.
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Ugh HS orchestra be playing this..... its. very. difficult.
we're playing this too, I thought it was pretty easy
+KaiD i find it really hard too jfc
kayla shader BUT IS IT NOT WORTH? FUGUE?
Yes. I am a freshman, and playing the fugue piano part in 1 month. It is such a time crunch, but at least there is spring break for me