BLOCH E. PIANO QUINTET No.1, PIANO QUINTET No.2 / I.Klánský piano, Kocian Quartet

ERNEST BLOCH (1880-1959) - PIANO QUINTETS No.1 (1923), No.2 (1957)

Piano Quintet no 1 (1923) 32:56

Piano Quintet no 2 (1957) 17:39

KOCIAN QUARTET:

Pavel Hůla, Miloš Černý violins, Zbyněk Paďourek viola, Václav Bernášek cello

Ivan Klánský piano

‘...he could have laid claim, like Georges Enesco, to the title of “the Berlioz of chamber music” ! It should be known that the five string quartets, two quintets, two violin sonatas, the Suite for Viola and piano and the composer’s testament, the six suites for solo strings [ ] constitute a corpus whose importance, in the 20th century, is every bit the equal of Bartók or Schoenberg. But Bloch remained an independent, far from any school or system, whose sole concern will have been [ ] to be sincere and true...’ (Harry Halbreich, 1990)