Ernest Bloch - Concerto Grosso No. 1 (1925)

Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer.

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Concerto Grosso No. 1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato (1925 Santa Fe - Cleveland)

1. Prelude
2. Dirge
3. Pastorale and Rustic Dances
4. Fugue

Irit Rob, piano and the Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yoav Talmi

The work was Bloch's first published concerto grosso of two. According to Alexander J. Morin, the work was created in response to complaints by Bloch's students at the Cleveland Institute of Music about "the inadequacies of tonality in shaping the music for the next century."

Music critic Olin Downes wrote, "The Bloch concerto was on the whole the best written and the most effective of the new works, even though it lacks some of the power and color" of other works.A third concerto grosso evolved into his work Sinfonia Breve.