Bloch Concerto Grosso No.2 full score, sheet music, orchestra parts

Bloch Concerto Grosso No.2 conductor's score, noten, partituri, partition

Bloch: Concerto Grosso No.2 for Strings

Edition Zeza

$399.95

SKU EZ-3316

Weight 3.50 LBS

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Instrumentation String Quartet (Concertino) & String Orchestra (Ripieno)

Duration ca. 18 minutes

Set of Parts Includes Strings count 5.5.4.4.3

Extra Strings Available on request.

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Ernest Bloch’s Concerto Grosso No. 2 (B.84), composed in 1952 and published by G. Schirmer in 1953, is scored for a concertino string quartet (two violins, viola, cello) against a five-part string ripieno (string orchestra).

The work is in four movements — I. Maestoso – Allegro – Maestoso (G minor); II. Andante (G minor); III. Allegro (E minor); IV. Tranquillo – Animato (B minor → B major)

Stylistically it returns more directly to the Baroque concerto-grosso model than Bloch’s earlier Grosso, emphasising the antiphonal and soloistic interplay between quartet and ensemble while retaining Bloch’s mid-20th-century harmonic language. The work’s first widely cited public performance was given on 11 April 1953 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent.

Concerto Grosso No.1 is available here.