Release Date: 01 February 2005
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571174396
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Hagai Shaham has already demonstrated his thrilling virtuosity and luscious tone in his Hyperion recordings of Jeno Hubay, and here he shines in the richly expressive music of Ernest Bloch. The two violin sonatas are contrasting works (Bloch described No 1 as embodying ‘the world as it is’, while No 2 represents ‘the world as it should be’): the first is in three movements and balances violent and ritualistic motifs with passages of dream-like calm; the second is more simple and lyrical, characterized by long melodic lines and stylistically not unlike Szymanowski. The three shorter works are also lyrical and, like most of Bloch’s music, exemplify the Jewish influence on Bloch’s musical idiom.
Lovers of the violin and early twentieth-century Romanticism will revel in ravishing music performed with such an irresistible zeal and flair.
This is the first of two discs which will encompass Bloch’s complete music for violin and piano.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez
