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Bloch, Ben-Haim, and Babi Yar

April 17, 2020, 9:00 pm

Ernest Bloch

Three 20th-century masterworks.

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Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1
Charles Munch, conductor; Walter Hendl, piano (recorded 1948)

Ben-Haim: Sweet Psalmist of Israel
Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord; Christina Savrache, harp (recorded 1959)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar”
Kurt Masur, conductor; Sergei Leiferkus, baritone; Men of the New York Choral Artists dir. Joseph Flummerfelt (recorded 1993)

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