Raphael Wallfisch & John York - Bloch: Music for Cello & Piano (2017)

These five works, covering the range from Bloch's student days in Brussels and through his first decades in the USA, bear witness to a fertile and expanding imagination. Central to any survey of Bloch must be the so-called ""Jewish"" music which occupied him for just a decade around the time of the First World War and into the 20s and which includes his greatest and most popular score, Schelomo - Rhapsodie hébraïque for cello and orchestra from 1916. He did not invent the style, however, nor did he always inhabit this world, as evinced by the early Sonate and the big Suite 1919, neither of which could be labelled ""Jewish"".

TRACKLIST
01. Sonate pour piano et violoncello: I. Allegro appassionato-Piu lento-Tempo I
02. Sonate pour piano et violoncello: II. Adagio espressivo
03. Suite for Cello and Piano: I. Lento-Allegro-Moderato-Largamente
04. Suite for Cello and Piano: II. Allegro ironico-Grave-Tempo dell'allegro
05. Suite for Cello and Piano: III. Lento
06. Suite for Cello and Piano: IV. Molto vivo-Moderato assai-Animato presto
07. Nigun
08. From Jewish Life: I. Prayer
09. From Jewish Life: II. Supplication
10. From Jewish Life: III. Jewish Song
11. Méditation hébraïque