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Title: Ernest Bloch Post by: greek on May 01, 2022, 07:35:35 am Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva in 1880. After a year in Paris (1903-4), during which time he absorbed the French Impressionistic style, he returned to Geneva and entered his father’s business as a bookkeeper and salesman of Swiss tourist goods. Meanwhile, he kept his hand in music by composing in piecemeal fashion, conducting orchestral concerts in Neuchâtel and Lausanne and lecturing on æsthetics at the Geneva Conservatory (1911-15). A high point of this period was the première of his lyric drama, Macbeth. He gave us two piano quintets: - First Piano Quintet (1923) There are three movements: I. Adagio II. Andante mistico III. Allegro energico and the players were Alfredo Casella, piano, with the Pro Arte String Quartet. http://youtu.be/pi9lFJnWYTk (http://youtu.be/pi9lFJnWYTk) - Second Piano Quintet (1957): Again there are three movements: 1. Animato 2. Andante 3. Allegro and the players were Daniel Hoexter, piano, with the Orlando Quartet: John Harding, violin Heinz Oberdorfer, violin Ferdinand Erblich, viola Stefan Metz, cello http://youtu.be/EnDUL7Oxu-g (http://youtu.be/EnDUL7Oxu-g) |