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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 movements |
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Composition Year | 1919 Feb.-May. (for viola and piano) 1919-1920 (orchestration - June 1919-March 1920) |
Genre Categories | Suites; For viola, orchestra; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the orchestra; For orchestra with soloists; For viola, piano (arr); Scores featuring the piano; For 2 players |
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Complete Score
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Arrangements and Transcriptions
For Viola and Piano (Composer)
Piano Score (black and white)
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Piano Score (grayscale)
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Viola Part (black and white)
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General Information
Work Title | Suite |
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Alternative. Title | Suite for Viola and Piano or Orchestra |
Composer | Bloch, Ernest |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | B.41 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IEB 30 |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 4 movements
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Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1919 Feb.-May. (for viola and piano) 1919-1920 (orchestration - June 1919-March 1920) |
First Performance. | 1919 September 27 (with piano) 1920 November 5 (with orchestra) |
First Publication. | 1920 – New York: Schirmer |
Copyright Information | Possibly public domain in parts of the EU and other 70 pma territories. Please obey the copyright laws of your country. IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country. |
Average DurationAvg. Duration | 30-35 minutes |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Early 20th century |
Piece Style | Early 20th century |
Instrumentation | Solo: viola Orchestra: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets (B♭), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns (F), 3 trumpets (C), 3 trombones, tuba timpani, percussion + 2 harps, strings |
External Links | Ernest Bloch Legacy Wikipedia article (French) |
Misc. Comments
According to the notes to Naxos 8.570829, entered in a competition sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, tied for first place with Rebecca Clarke's viola sonata; Coolidge broke the tie and awarded the prize to Bloch.
Bloch's full-bodied, large-scale, colorfully scored violin concerto has never caught on in the concert hall, despite early championing by the soloist who commissioned it, Joseph Szigeti. Bloch had studied with Ysaÿe, but he hadn't touched the violin in years until this commission arrived; he took it up again in an effort to write as idiomatically for the instrument as possible.
The work's original program notes stated that Bloch quotes Native American themes (Bloch had spent the 1920s in the United States), but this is not quite correct; he does allude to American Indian music without using authentic melodies, but for that matter he also alludes to the same cantorial sort of eastern European and eastern Mediterranean music that suffused his more popular Schelomo. Indeed, the Hebraic influence seems especially strong here, particularly in the third movement, but Bloch insisted, 'I can only say that in it there is neither Jewish inspiration nor intention.'
The first of the three movements, Allegro deciso, begins with a horn call whose first measure might have been plucked straight from Schelomo, but which settles into an ominous rhythmic figure that would become a cliché in later cowboy-and-Indian movies. This and two brief, more singing melodies provide the basic material for the movement, which subjects the themes to a series of transformations. The music is highly rhapsodic with frequent tempo changes, yet Bloch praised Szigeti for not pulling the music around too much.
The brief, dreamlike Andante alludes even more strongly to Bloch's earlier Hebraic-Impressionist style. The music is dark and exotically modal, with the soloist frequently pulling out of the movement's basic processional plod and leading the orchestra into freer, more restless rhythmic and harmonic material. The final movement, 'Deciso,' arrives with a confident yet dour orchestral introduction, whereupon the violin arrives with melodic and rhythmic echoes of the first movement, and soon introduces new thematic material. Again, Bloch favors a rhapsodic, transformational approach to his themes, shifting from lyrical episodes to playful interludes, ending with a grand, extroverted passage into which the quotation from the first movement insinuates itself one last time.
Parts/Movements
- Allegro deciso - Moderato assai
- Andante
- Deciso
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Appears On
Year | Title / Performer | Label / Catalog # | AllMusic Rating |
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2011 | Michaël Guttman / José Serebrier | CDDCA785 | |
2010 | Various Artists | 5099945631 | |
2009 | 5099926413 | ||
2008 | 42 | ||
2007 | Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Zina Schiff / José Serebrier | 8557757 | |
2006 | 222357 | ||
2005 | Zephyr | ||
2003 | Naxos Historical | ||
2002 | NM Classics | ||
2001 | 2991-2994 | ||
2000 | Supraphon | ||
1999 | 1226 | ||
1995 | 639 | ||
1993 | Vanguard | ||
1993 | Michaël Guttman / José Serebrier | 785 | |
1993 | 9938 | ||
1992 | 720 | ||
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