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Ernest Bloch: Violin Concerto; Baal Shem; Suite Hébraïque ()

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Ernest Bloch: Violin Concerto; Baal Shem; Suite Hébraïque - Zina Schiff (violin); Royal Scottish National Orchestra; José Serebrier (conductor)
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  1. Violin Concerto
  2. Baal Shem: 3 pictures of Hassidic life, for violin & piano (or orchestra)
  3. Suite hébraïque, for viola (or violin) & orchestra (or piano)
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A wonderfully cohesive program brilliantly executed, this disc by violinist Zina Schiff with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under José Serebrier is a superb single-disc collection of Ernest Bloch's major works for violin and orchestra. Each piece is based on Jewish themes, explicitly in Baal Shem (Three Pictures of Chassdic Life) and Suite Hébraïque, and implicitly in the Violin Concerto. But, as Bloch wrote, he strove in all three works to embody "the complex, glowing, agitated soul that I feel vibrating through the ...

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