America/Concerto Grosso (Naxos Audio CD)
Ernest Bloch
America/Concerto Grosso (Naxos Audio CD)
Ernest Bloch
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Ernest BLOCH (1880-1959)
America: An Epic Rhapsody† • Concerto Grosso No 1*
Patricia Michaelian, piano* • Seattle Symphony Chorale†
Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz
Swiss-born Bloch, a pupil of Eugène Ysaÿe, emigrated to the United States in 1916. Written in 1926, two years after Bloch had become an American citizen, America: An Epic Rhapsody, is the composer’s tribute to his adopted country. This romantic and patriotic score vividly surveys the history of the US from the native American melodies of pre-colonial days to the modern era of 1920s jazz and beyond. The Concerto Grosso No 1 is a bold statement which unites the eighteenthcentury concerto grosso form with a modern tonal language.
