Browse: Bloch, E - Schelomo

He delivers Bloch’s epic Schelomo with magnificent command, tracing its ark from lamentation to shrill anger back to resignation. Michael Sanderling and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra bring out... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022 More…

As one might expect, Clein delivers a powerfully committed performance, but also manages to avoid over-indulgence, negotiating the peaks and troughs of the music's volatile emotional language... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Connoisseurs of instrumental colour should especially relish the dark throb of Tim Posner’s cello in the early bars of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, the first attraction in a programme that displays... — The Times, 13rd March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression...What... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Steckel] shows his mettle and musicianship very impressively in three contrasted Jewish concertante works, creating a firm, warmly full-bodied tone and easy virtuosity. He is absolutely at home... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…