Bloch: Sacred Service Orchestral & Concertos Choir Chandos(Classics)

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When this recording was originally issued on LP I compared it with all previous versions of the work… finding it to be superior with regard to both performance and sound… I remain enthusiastic about this Chandos release, especially in its CD re-issue.

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Don’t expect passionate, rhapsodic outpourings along the lines of ‘Schelomo’. Majoring on austerity and restraint, Bloch’s Sacred Service (Avodath Hokodeth) post-dates his discovery of a bracing neo-classicism, best exemplified by the Concert grosso No. 1 and Piano Quintet No. 1, minor masterpieces we ought to hear more often. Apart from the language of its ritual, the Sacred Service often sounds like Vaughan Williams. The music is four-square and at times obsessively contrapuntal, yet the scoring has a deftness and luminosity that may come as a surprise.

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Chandos have reissued on compact disc its memorable 1978 recording with the Zemel Choir and London Symphony Orchestra, under Geoffrey Simon, in which Louis Berkman sings the cantors part with mellifluous sensitivity.

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