Antonín Dvořák; Ernest Bloch; Max Bruch - Cello Concerto; Schelomo; Kol Nidrei (Pierre Fournier)

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Composer: Antonín Dvořák; Ernest Bloch; Max Bruch

• (01) Dvorak - Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
• (04) Bloch - Schelomo
• (05) Bruch - Kol Nidrei, Op. 47

Pierre Fournier, cello
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1-4)
Orchestre Lamoureux (5)
George Szell, conductor (1-3)

Alfred Wallenstein, conductor (4)
Jean Martinon, conductor (5)

Date: 1961 (1-3), 1966 (4), 1960 (5)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4291552

More info & reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Dvorák-Cello-Concerto-Nidrei-Schelomo/dp/B000001GBX

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Antonín Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer. He was the second Czech composer to achieve worldwide recognition, after Bedřich Smetana. Following Smetana's nationalist example, many of Dvořák's works show the influence of Czech folk music, such as his  two sets of Slavonic Dances, the Symphonic Variations, and the overwhelming majority of his songs. Dvořák wrote in a variety of forms: nine symphonies, ten operas, three concertos, several symphonic poems, serenades for string orchestra and wind ensemble, more than 40 works of chamber music, and piano music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k

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Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 in Geneva, Switzerland – July 15, 1959 in Portland, USA) was a Swiss-born American composer.  Bloch's musical style does not fit easily into any of the usual categories; he studied variously with Eugène Ysaÿe, Jaques-Dalcroze, Iwan Knorr and Ludwig Thuille, as well as corresponding with Mahler and meeting Debussy. Many of his works - as can be seen from their Hebrew-inspired titles - also draw heavily on his Jewish heritage. He held several teaching appointments in the U.S., with George Antheil, Frederick Jacobi, Quincy Porter, Bernard Rogers, and Roger Sessions among his pupils.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bloch

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Max Bruch (6 January 1838 in Cologne – 2 October 1920 in Berlin) was a German Romantic composer and conductor. He wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, and was best known for his first violin concerto, which is a staple of the violin repertory and one of the most popular Romantic violin concertos. His complex and unfailingly well-structured works, in the German Romantic musical tradition, placed him in the camp of Romantic classicism exemplified by Johannes Brahms, rather than the opposing "New Music" of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. In his time he was known primarily as a choral composer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bruch

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Pierre Fournier (24 June 1906 – 8 January 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. Graduating from the Paris Conservatory at the age of 17, Fournier was hailed as "the cellist of the future" and won praise for his virtuosity and bowing technique. He toured all over Europe and played with many of the most highly acclaimed, prestigious musicians of his time. Fournier was a teacher at the École Normale de Musique in Paris and the Paris Conservatoire from 1937 to 1949. Near the end of his life, he taught privately at his home in Geneva.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Fournier

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