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2019-04-08 15:18:10
[…] this time from his last quartets,' wrote one journalist after hearing the piece in Belgium.  Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952) Bacewicz wrote two piano quintets, both of which are works of impressive stature and imagination. The First is flavoured with Polish folk music, and blends expressive intensity with sparky writing. It's her best-known chamber piece, and there are several execellent recordings of it, including a recent recording by the Silesian Quartet and pianist Wojciech ÅšwitaÅ‚a, on Chandos, given five stars by BBC Music Magazine.  • Krystian Zimerman plays Bacewicz • Bacewicz Violin Concertos Nos 2, 4 and 5  Violin Concerto No. 7 (1965) Bacewicz's series of violin concertos culminates with the Seventh in her avant-garde period in the 1960s. Although she had premiered many of her other concertos herself, by this point a serious car accident had put an end to her performing career. The three-movement work […]
2019-03-16 23:37:01
On this CD, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has recorded two Chopin recitals for The Fryderyk Chopin Institute: one on modern piano, the other on period piano. The same program in two different sound versions. This is now The Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s fourth such double album – after the recordings of Dang Thai Son (Nocturnes), Wojciech Świtała (Ballades) and Krzysztof Jabłoński (Etudes); these CDs are of extraordinary knowledge-building value, permitting sensitive listeners to acquaint themselves with the particular beauty of early instruments in confrontation with their modern version. Garrick Ohlsson’s newest recordings acquaint us more closely with Chopin in two different ways,
2018-04-26 14:00:18
Silesian Quartet/Polish Cello Quartet(Chandos)The postwar composer and musician wrote fine works influenced by Bartók, played here with energy and engagement The last few years have been good to the music of Grażyna Bacewicz. Championed by musicians from her native Poland and elsewhere, including Krystian Zimerman, this pioneering composer seems to be beginning to win the international profile she deserves, at least on disc. Recently there have been distinctive but equally rewarding surveys of her seven string quartets on both Chandos and Naxos. Now, on Chandos, the Silesian Quartet is joined by pianist Wojciech ÅšwitaÅ‚a and others for her two piano quintets, plus two less conventional quartets – for four violins and four cellos. Born in Lodz in 1909, Bacewicz was both a composer and a renowned violin virtuoso, and a more than decent pianist as well. She wrote for strings and piano as a singer might write for their own voice: […]
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