Bloch: Piano Quintets [IMPORT]

Ernest Bloch (Composer), Piers Lane (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Piers Lane
• Composer: Ernest Bloch
• Audio CD (December 11, 2007)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000WE5G6W
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,932 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Quintet for piano & strings No. 1: Agitato

2. Quintet for piano & strings No. 1: Andante mistico

3. Quintet for piano & strings No. 1: Allegro energico

4. Night, for string quartet

5. Landscapes (Paysages), pieces (3) for string quartet: North: Moderato molto

6. Landscapes (Paysages), pieces (3) for string quartet: Alpestre: Allegretto

7. Landscapes (Paysages), pieces (3) for string quartet: Tongataboo: Allegro

8. Pieces (2), for string quartet: Andante moderato

9. Pieces (2), for string quartet: Allegro molto

10. Quintet for piano & strings No. 2: Animato

11. Quintet for piano & strings No. 2: Andante

12. Quintet for piano & strings No. 2: Allegro

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Music, Wonderfully played, April 9, 2008

By	R. E. Glasgow (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There have been only a few recordings of Bloch's chamber music that have stayed in the catalog for any length of time. This one should persevere for years. I sat down intending only to listen to the first Piano Quintet from 1923 but ended up staying through the 1957 Second Quintet. The music is just that compulsively listenable. I have never understood why Bloch's music does not figure in more recital programs and recordings; his chamber music is particularly appealing. His music has a characteristic sound world, much as Bela Bartok's does. As Bloch grew older, his music became somewhat more spare and acerbic but, like Frank Martin's music, it remains uniquely his.

The performances by Piers Lane with the Goldner String Quartet are wonderful, the recording is rich and full, and the notes are a model of their kind.