Bloch: Nigun
from Baal Shem - Thee Pictures of Chassidic Life
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- Composer: Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
- Format: Solo Part with Piano Reduction
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Violin
- Originally for: Violin, Orchestra
- Work: Nigun from Baal Shem (Version for Violin & Orchestra) (1923)
- ISBN:
- Size: 9.1 x 11.9 inches
- Pages: 16
Description
"What interests me," wrote Bloch, "is the Jewish soul, the enigmatic, ardent, turbulent soul that I feel vibrating throughout the Bible...it is all this that I endeavor to hear in myself and to transcribe into my music; the venerable emotion of the race that slumbers way down in our souls." Bloch's Baal Shem is made up of I. "Vidui" (Contrition) -- Un poco lento; II. "Nigun" (Improvisation) -- Adagio non troppo; III. "Simchas Torah" (Rejoicing) -- Allegro giocoso. Nigun is the most extrovert composition. Bloch attempts to recreate the feeling of ecstatic religious chanting through a highly charged and ornate melodic line that rises to a fever pitch of spiritual intensity before dying away to a gentle close.