Ernest Bloch - String Quartet No. 1

- Composer: Ernest Bloch (24 July 1880 -- 15 July 1959) - Performers: Griller String Quartet - Year of recording: 1954 String Quartet No. 1, written in 1916. 00:00 - I. Andante moderato 15:43 - II. Allegro frenetico 27:43 - III. Andante molto moderato (Pastorale) 41:56 - IV. Finale. Vivace This work was written at a turbulent times for both Bloch and the World. Composition commenced in 1915 with a war raging in Europe. Bloch moved to the United States for the first time before completing the writing of this work in 1916. Bloch described this work as:“ a kind of synthesis of my vision of the world at that period.“ It is dedicated to the Flonzaley Quartet, one of the early pioneers of professional chamber music groups. It is in the key of b minor. Bloch titled the work in French Quatour a Cordes, without indicating a number. It would be almost 30 years before Bloch would complete another quartet. The work is written in a cyclic form that was co