Sacred Service for a Sabbath Morning
Invocation; Kedushah (Sanctification); Torah (The Law); Returning the Scroll to the Ark; Epilogue
William Parsons (baritone)
Sale and District
Musical Society
(Conductor, Alfred Higson )
BBC Northern Orchestra
' (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, Charles Groves
Bloch's Sacred Service was written at
Roveredo Capriasca, near Lake Lugano, during 1932-34, and the first performance was given at Turin in February 1934 under the composer himself. Bloch has said: ' The Service is a setting of Hebrew texts used in the Reform Temples of America..... These texts embody the essence of Israel's aspirations and its message to the world.'