Monday, July 13, 2009

July: Oregon Awareness Month for Ernest Bloch

So declares our state's governor. Bloch lived his later years in Oregon, probably becoming the state's best known composer. So let's listen to one of his most popular compositions, Schelomo Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra. Here, by Mstislav Rostropovich in an obviously old (when? Berstein died around 1990) partial (where is the rest of it?) performance with the French National Orchestra being conducted by Leonard Bernstein:



And here is an interesting, quite different performance done with double bass (Boguslaw Furtok) and piano (Ewa Warykiewicz):

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