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Barber · Bernstein · Bloch

Composer Samuel Barber
Leonard Bernstein
Ernest Bloch
Performer Vadim Gluzman
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
John Neschling, conductor
Period Romantic
Catalogue Number BIS-1662 SACD
EAN 7318599916620
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Nov 2009
Total time 70'31


The three works for violin and orchestra gathered here testify both to the versatility of Vadim Gluzman as a performer and to the richness and variety of the influences at play in American music during the 20th century. Like the text by Plato which inspired it, Bernstein's Serenade, from 1954, is a series of statements in praise of love. Musically it is typical of its maker, with allusions both to his own music and to works by Bartók, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky, and with a hint of jazz in the finale. Composed some thirty years Read more
 
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  Leonard Bernstein
  Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’ for solo violin,
strings, harp and percussion
30'24
01 I. Phaedrus: Pausanias. Lento – Allegro marcato 6'31
02 II. Aristophanes. Allegretto 4'37
03 III. Eryximachus. Presto 1'27
04 IV. Agathon. Adagio 7'01
05 V. Socrates: Alcibiades. Molto tenuto – Allegro molto vivace 10'48
 
 
  Ernest Bloch
  Baal Shem – Three pictures of Chassidic Life 15'05
06 I. Vidui (Contrition) 3'18
07 II. Nigun (Improvisation) 6'55
08 III. Simchas Torah (Rejoicing) 4'52
 
 
  Samuel Barber
  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.14 23'27
09 I. Allegro 10'40
10 II. Andante 8'53
11 III. Presto in moto perpetuo 3'54
 
  Album total 70'31
ComposerBarber, Samuel
Bernstein, Leonard
Bloch, Ernest
OrchestraSão Paulo Symphony Orchestra
ConductorNeschling, John
ViolinGluzman, Vadim

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