Latica Honda-Rosenberg (violin) & Avner Arad (piano)
- Violinsonaten Nr. 1 & 2; Melodie; Baal-Shem; Abodah; Nuit exotique; Suite hebraique
+Suiten Nr. 1 & 2 für Violine solo
Red thread through the life's work
The violin was the instrument of Ernest Bloch, born in Geneva in 1880. He studied in Brussels at the conservatory with Eugène Ysaÿe and perfected himself as a composer in Frankfurt and Paris. His early work was influenced by Strauss and Debussy. Bloch moved to the USA in 1916 and became an American citizen in 1924
Composed between 1920 and 1958, Bloch's works for violin trace his development as a mature composer emancipated from his models. The two violin sonatas and Baal-Shem stem from the second, so-called Hebrew phase. The outbreak of the Second World War triggered a creative crisis for Bloch that lasted until the end of the war. Then, however, a late oeuvre emerged in rapid succession that both reflects the influences of tradition (especially Bach's and Beethoven's) and testifies to an intensive engagement with all the musical currents of his contemporaries: from neoclassicism and neobaroque to twelve-tone music, Bloch was inspired to write works that, while betraying an intensive engagement with problems of form and structure, never lose the typically passionate mood that characterizes Bloch's music.
Reviews
P. T. Köster in KLASSIK heute 12/00: "The violinist Latica Honda-Rosenberg savors the broad expressive spectrum of Bloch's music She masters the dramatic outbursts as well as the meditative passages dramatic outbursts as well as the meditative passages, the tension arcs and allows the pauses to breathe The pianist Avner Arad acts as an equal partner with an alert presence and partner with alert presence and fine sound Sound."
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