Concertos, Cello Concertos, Bloch, E (composer)
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Elgar: Viola Concerto & Bloch: Suite For Viola and Orchestra
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Ridout’s account of the opening movement is full of richly rhapsodic playing , although the viola suggests more of a wistful musing than the deeper, elegiac contemplation possible on the cello. —
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Limelight Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Concerto
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New. Lutosławski: Concertos For Cello / For Orchestra, Bloch: Schelomo
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Luxembourg Philharmonic, Gustavo Gimeno
Already at the first hearing I was very intrigued by Jean-Guihen Queyras's new interpretation, as I could hear no traces of political history or power struggles in his playing. In fact, he makes... —
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Bloch/Bruch: Schelomo, Kol Nidrei & other works
Natalie Clein (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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Record Review, 22nd January 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Ernest Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic Rhapsody, Suite For Viola and Orchestra
Parry Karp (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kenneth Woods
The pedigree ensures an authority that is felt right from the enrapt intensity of Schelomo's long-held first note. Karp sustains the psychological narrative with compelling empathy...In Kenneth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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Elgar: Cello Concerto
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Ben Davies (cello), Hannah Roberts (cello), Josephine Knight (cello), Caroline Dearnley (cello), Ashok Klouda (cello), Toby Hughes (double bass), The Heath Quartet, Gary Pomeroy (viola), Oliver Heath (violin), Sara Wolstenholme (violin), Chris Murray (cello), Plinio Fernandes...
He takes the view that a noble reticence suits Elgar’s emotional world just as well as the huge intensity of Jacqueline du Pré, whose early recording he cites as an inspiration. Often this approach... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Nouveauté
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Yo-Yo Ma: The New York Album
RecommendedYo-Yo Ma (cello), Yo-Yo Ma (alto violin)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman
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Grammy Awards, 37th Awards (1994), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 37th Awards (1994), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Emanuel Feuermann in Concert
Emanuel Feuermann (cello), National Orchestral Association, Leon Barzin
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In The Shadow of War
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Hugh Wolff, Gábor Takács-Nagy
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Bloch: Israel Symphony, Schelomo & Three Jewish Poems
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares, Zara Nelsova (cello), Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
…A valuable release, bringing much of Bloch’s overtly Jewish-themed orchestral music together in fine performances. —
