it would be hard to imagine more moving performances of all this music than those of Grether...Powerful recording to match the performances. I look forward to hearing more of Elsa Grether.

A notable feature of this recording of Bloch’s Second Sonata is how the engineers have managed to vest the playing, as do the musicians themselves, with the kind of ethereal sound necessary fully to project its superscriptive name, Poème mystique...The Chasidic recitative later in the music works well, and bowing is intense, chording taut but not scrunchy. This is a good partnership.