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In the Shadow of War | BIS BIS1992

In the Shadow of War

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS1992

Barcode: 7318599919928

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 25th February 2013

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Steven Isserlis (cello)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Tapiola Sinfonietta

Conductors

Hugh Wolff
Gabor Takacs-Nagy

Works

Bloch, Ernest

Schelomo (Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra)

Bridge, Frank

Oration (Concerto elegiaco)

Hough, Stephen

The Loneliest Wilderness

Artists

Steven Isserlis (cello)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Tapiola Sinfonietta

Conductors

Hugh Wolff
Gabor Takacs-Nagy

About

This programme is well conceived and draws some truly moving playing. The coda to Bridge’s Oration makes a serious challenge for the title of ‘most beautiful ending to a cello concerto’ (Steven Isserlis).

Schelomo is an extraordinary work where Bloch seems to have created a new musical language inspired by Jewish music dating back thousands of years. Often mistaken for film music, Schelomo’s immediacy and descriptiveness has influenced many film composers.

Isserlis plays the ‘Marquis de Corberon’ Stradivarius of 1726, formerly owned by Zara Nelsova who was the first to record Bloch’s Schelomo, with the composer conducting.

Orchestras:
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Hugh Wolff (Bloch, Bridge)
- Tapiola Sinfonietta / Gábor Takács-Nagy (Hough)

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