Ernest Bloch's major works for violin and piano may compel respect, but they might not inspire love or give much pleasure. The violent, unstable Violin Sonata No. 1 (1920) is a bracing expression of the turbulence of World War I, and Bloch pushes the music's tension to incredible lengths over the work's 30 minutes. One may appreciate the sincerity ...
There have been few recordings of all three of Grieg's beguiling violin sonatas, and with the exception of the sublime Augustin Dumay/Maria-João Pires recording, most of them have been negligible. There have been still fewer recordings of arrangements of his charming piano miniatures by Joseph Achron and nearly all of them have been negligible. So ...
This CD of violin works for violin by Ernest Bloch and Paul Ben Haim offers quite a mixed bag in terms of both composition and performance. Bloch is most widely recognized for his compositions that are infused with Jewish and Hebrew folk elements, and with good reason; it is in this idiom that he produced his most easily accessible and enjoyable ...
Since Shlomo Mintz's approach to playing and conducting Mozart is far from dogmatic, but rather flexible and open to change, his renditions on this fine three-disc set of the Violin Concertos, K. 207, 211, 216, 218, and 219; the Concertone, K. 190; and the Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364, are a bit of a compromise between opposing interpretive ...
Listeners cannot familiarize themselves with the music of Johannes Brahms without also knowing the name of violinist and composer Joseph Joachim. Joachim was one of Brahms' first and most long-standing proponents, and played a vital role in the composition of many of Brahms' masterpieces. After the profound abilities of young Brahms became ...
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