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Title: Bruns Masters Bloch
Review: Peter Bruns, a young Berliner and a devotee of JS Bach, has earned his reputation as an ardent cellist. On this CD, he is solidly accompanied by Roglit Ishay at the piano in an eloquent performance of Ernest Bloch's "Meditations Hebraiques." The composer conceived some of his most poignant melodies in these interpretations of his "enigmatic Jewish soul" and Bruns draws highly evocative sounds from his instrument, built by the master Carlo Tanoni in Vienna in 1730. Bloch and the two performing artists then merge the sonorities of Jewish spirituality with a display of baroque technique in a fitting tribute to Bach, via three suites for unaccompanied cello. In the concluding selection, Ms. Ishay joins Mr. Bruns for "Three Pictures of Chassidic Life - Contrition, Improvisation, and Rejoicing."
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