From Jewish Life: The Music of Ernest Bloch
Heritage Records HTGCD 158
Yevgeny Dokshansky, clarinet
Richard Masters, piano
26 novembre 2021
From Jewish Life: The Music of Ernest Bloch de Yevgeny Dokshansky & Richard Masters sur Amazon Music - Amazon.fr
Total Time: 55:46 min

 

 

From Jewish Life, B. 54 8.37
  1.   I.  Prayer 3:46  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPoVaJSyUR8 (From Jewish Life B 54 I No 1 Prayer.mp4)
  2.  II. Supplication 2:35  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCj5arXo__Q (From Jewish Life B 54 II No 2 Supplication.mp4)
  3.  III. Jewish Song 2:16  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyU3yKh4RUg  (From Jewish Life B 54 III No 3 Jewish Song.mp4)

Two Pieces, B. 82 5:25
  4.   I. Méditation 3:16  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AbwaeEQQJA (Two Pieces B 82 I Meditation.mp4)
  5.  II. Procession 2:09  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhnA7IkC3mw (Two Pieces B 82 II Processional.mp4)

Suite Hébraïque, B. 83 11:37
  6.  I. Rapsodie 6:18  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrXonMHCtA (Suite Hébraïque B 83 I Rapsodie.mp4)
  7.  II. Processional 1:51  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8lTEJ-3Ex4 (Suite Hébraïque B 83 II Processional.mp4)
  8.  III. Affirmation 3:28  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMijIg_cEcA (Suite Hébraïque B 83 III Affirmation.mp4)

Suite, B. 41 (Suite pour alto et piano) 30:17
  9.  I. Lento: Allegro-Moderato 12:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4zzzW_aWG0 (Suite B 41 I Lento Allegro Moderato.mp4)
10.  II. Allegro ironico 5:02  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3EGr09v2k (Suite B 41 II Allegro ironico.mp4)
11.  III. Lento 4:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EiiuOCuNrY (Suite B 41 III Lento.mp4)
12.  IV. Molto vivo 8:38  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YGjxjxsKio (Suite B 41 IV Molto vivo.mp4)

 

All works transcribed by Yevgeny Dokshansky
Engineered, recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered by Scott Hannenberg
Producer: Benjamin Wyatt
 
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Swiss-born, naturalized American, fertile composer, scholarly academic and revered teacher, gifted amateur photographer, devoted family man, and fervently faithful Jew,
is the author of the music selected by Belorussian clarinetist Yevgeny Dokshansky for the album From Jewish Life: The Music of Ernest Bloch.
Dokshansky, a superb clarinetist has faithfully adapted Bloch’s From Jewish Life; Two Pieces, B. 82; Suite Hebraique; and his Suite, B. 41 to be played on his clarinet with idiomatic success.
Bloch’s music in this album ranges from mid-career works dating back to 1919 to fully mature works composed while the composer was in his sixties.
Throughout all four of these compositions one can hear the composer’s fascination with Ashkenazy music both sacred and secular, some clearly modal in its use of exotic scales, some flirting with atonality, some lyrical, some intensely dramatic, all of it uniquely original and compelling.
In collaboration with his pianist, the formidable Richard Masters, Dokshansky summons dulcet sounds from his sympathetic instrument, both artists quickly convincing the listener that this is the best way that this music should be played.
Scott Hannenberg has engineered Benjamin Wyatt’s elegantly produced album with amplitude and clarity.Rafael de Acha