All Bloch articles
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Blogs
Violinist Daniil Bulayev on his debut album of Bloch, Enescu and Ysaÿe
The winner of the 2021 Windsor Festival International String Competition shares how personal tragedy emphasises his connection Bloch’s Baal Shem, which features on his debut album
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Review
Emanuel Feuermann – The RCA Album Collection
A first complete collection does justice to a cello legend
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Review
The Strad Recommends: Tim Posner: Bloch, Bruch, Dohnányi
An impressive concerto debut from a characterful young Brit
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Review
Danbi Um: Much Ado: Romantic Violin Pieces
A competition veteran makes her long-awaited solo debut album
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Review
Concert review: Joshua Bell (violin) Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance of Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bloch, Franck, Clara Schumann and Brahms at the Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, NY, on 30 May 2023
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Review
Arve Tellefsen et al: Sculpted Sound
Will instruments created from the same spruce log by the same luthier share certain sonic characteristics, even if played by separate individuals?
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Review
Concert review: Natalie Clein (cello) Cédric Pescia (piano)
Charlotte Gardner hears a performance of Schubert, Bloch, Brian Elias and Elisabeth Lutyens at London’s Wigmore Hall on 13 June 2022
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Review
Edgar Moreau: Transmission
Cellist brings subtle and shimmering beauty to Jewish-inspired programme
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Review
Live-streamed concert review: Ari Streisfeld (violin) Phillip Bush (piano)
Dennis Rooney watches a performance from the University of South Carolina’s 206 Recital Hall, on 31 August 2021
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Review
Oyster Duo: Stolen Pearls
Bass and piano duo breaks the mould and excels in borrowed repertoire
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Review
Yo-Yo Ma: Songs of Comfort and Hope
Gorgeously played album of serene favourites from a masterful duo
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Review
Virgil Boutellis-Taft: Incantation
Intimate and inward-looking playing perfectly suits a memorable recital programme
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Review
Raphael Wallfisch: Ben-Haim, Bloch, Korngold
Plenty of gold to be mined here in an enterprising collection of concertos
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Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky: 20th-Century Classics
A father–daughter combination achieves some almost miraculous musical moments
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Blogs
Raphael Wallfisch: Bloch vs Clarke, in concert
100 years after the composers came head to head in a competition, Wigmore Hall audiences are getting a chance to judge for themselves this week
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Blogs
Natalie Clein on Bloch's solo cello suites – and connecting with her Jewish roots
Ahead of her Wigmore Hall recital on Sunday, the British cellist recalls her first contact with Ernest Bloch’s music and its deeper significance to her
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Focus
Sentimental work: Lynn Harrell on Bloch's Schelomo
For the US cellist, the singing qualities and narrative drive of Bloch’s Schelomo bring evocative memories and spiritual uplift. From the January 2017 issue
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Focus
Cello journey: the best recordings of Ernest Bloch's Schelomo
Intended to be played as a seamless integrated whole, with an equality between the cellist and the orchestra, rather than as a concertante piece, Bloch’s Hebraic rhapsody Schelomo has been recorded by many cellists in numerous ways – and it seems that there is something special about almost all ...