The German composer Max Bruch was, like many of his Romantic-era contemporaries, rather keen on travelling around Europe. Kol Nidrei, his warm and richly evocative work for cello and orchestra, was ...

Any performance, much less an American one, of Max Bruch’s oratorio “Moses” from 1895 is a rarity. Yet this is a fabulous and important piece of music. First, however, one fact that no Jew interested ...

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Written against a background of growing 20th-century antisemitism, Ernest Bloch's music is deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and spirituality. Natalie Clein, in a sleeve note for her new recording of ...

Alisa Weilerstein played the Elgar Concerto with Daniel Barenboim in a concert the Berlin Philharmonic gave in Oxford on May Day, 2010. This performance is taken from a concert in Berlin last year, ...

Two of the familiar keystones of the cello repertoire – Bloch’s Schelomo and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei – are combined here with the lesser known Bloch symphonic poem Voice in the Wilderness and an ...

There's a brand new concert hall in Montgomery County, Md., that promises to become a major new venue between two cities that are already culturally rich, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The Baltimore ...

Schelomo BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Natalie Clein, Cello Ernest Bloch, Composer Ilan Volkov, Conductor From Jewish Life Ilan Volkov, Conductor Natalie Clein, Cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ...

Max Bruch's piece for cello is based on Jewish prayer sung at Yom Kippur and played memorably by Jacqueline du Pre. From 2002. Show more Bruch's piece for cello is based on Jewish prayer sung at Yom ...

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Nils Mönkemeyer, Viola William Walton, Composer Markus Poschner, Conductor Kol Nidrei Max Bruch, Composer Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Markus ...