Past Bloch Society Activity
To mark the anniversary in 2009 and beyond, musical organisations large and small and performers worldwide, have been invited to include Bloch’s music in their programmes as part of a grand Jubilee Festival.
Sunday 29 November 2009
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Purcell Room Southbank Centre
Prizewinners Concert: Bloch, Israeli Music and Music of Terezin
Roisin Walters, violin (winner of the Ernest Bloch competition, London) performs ‘From Jewish Life’. Other works will be included in the programme.
Chamber works by first prize-winners of 3 international music competitions:
The Myriad Wind Quintet (winners of the Israeli music competition, London) perform Tzvi Avni’s Wind quintet
Matej Arendarik piano (winner of the EPTA Terezin music competition, Prague) performs Gideon Klein Piano Sonata
£13.50 , 11.00
This is part of A World of Jewish Music
JMI Jewish Culture Day at the Southbank
Other concerts include:
5.00 Benya Krik
Classic Silent Film screening with Live Music by Robin Harris
8.00 Sophie Solomon
Virtuoso Sophie, the leading klezmer violinist of her generation, returns to the South Bank with her incendiary live band
Series offers
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In London two chamber concerts were presented at the Wigmore Hall by the International Ernest Bloch Society in association with the Jewish Music Institute whose Joint Presidents are Lady Solti and Leopold de Rothschild CBE. (list any reviews)
Monday 20 April 7.30pm and Wednesday 15 July 7.30pm
The Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1
Ernest Bloch: Wigmore Chamber Series 2009
Monday 20 April 7.30pm
Goldner Quartet
Piers Lane piano
Mahler (1860-1911) Piano Quartet movement in A minor (1876)
Bloch (1880-1959) Paysages (Landscapes) for string quartet (1925)
Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet in E flat major, op.74 (“The Harp”) (1809)
Bloch Piano Quintet no.1 (1921-3)
Presented by the Jewish Music Institute Supported by the Nordev Trust and the John S Cohen Foundation
Wednesday 15 July 7.30pm
Jack Liebeck violin
Bengt Forsberg piano
Debussy (1862-1918) Sonata in G minor (1917)
Bloch (1880-1959) Sonata no.1 (1920)
Bloch Baal Shem Suite (1923)
Franck (1822-90) Sonata in A major (1886)
Presented by the Jewish Music Institute Supported by the Nordev Trust and the John S Cohen Foundation
The IEBS hosted pre-concert talks at both these concerts at 6.00pm in the Bechstein Room,
A performance of Bloch’s only completed opera Macbeth was mounted in March at the Bloomsbury Theatre by University College London Opera and two performances of Bloch’s Sacred Service were presented by the Roehampton University Music Society in February. Professor Malcolm Troup offers lecture recitals on Bloch’s piano works as well as works for violin and piano in conjunction with violinist Eugene Feigelson.
Click here to go to the Bloch International Festival.
Click here to read about the Ernest Bloch conference in July 2007. You can also read the conference report here.
Click here to to see the complete programme notes for the Chamber Recital in the Chapel of Fitzwilliam College that was part of the 2007 Bloch conference.
Click here to read Malcolm Miller's review of Bloch’s Early Symphony:
Dalia Atlas and the RPO in a London revival of Bloch’s C sharp minor Symphony. July 2007.
Click here to read about the Remembering Ernest Bloch week that took place in July 2009.
Click here to go to Julian Jacobson’s review of Malcolm Troup’s piano recital at St James’ Piccadilly on 7 November 2008
Click here to read about the launch of the International Ernest Bloch Society, July 2008.