Bloch: Sacred Service
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COMPOSERS: Bloch
LABELS: Chandos Classics
ALBUM TITLE: Bloch – Sacred Service
WORKS: Sacred Service
PERFORMER: Louis Berkman, Zemel Choir, LSO, Geoffrey Smith
CATALOGUE NO: CHAN 10288
The Sacred Service may lack the electrifying zeal of Rózsa’s Ben-Hur or Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s I propheti, but Geoffrey Simon’s luxuriously recorded and devoted account should convert any Bloch doubters among us. Julian Haylock
Authors
Julian Haylock is the former editor of CD Review and International Piano Magazines and reviews of CD Classics Magazine. He is also the author of biographies on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Puccini, and co-author of the Haylock and Waugh pocket guides to Classical Music on CD and Opera Music on CD.