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The Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz wrote a good deal of chamber music; attractively shaped for the instruments (Bacewicz was a violinist herself), it has grown in popularity. The two piano quintets and two unorthodox quartets heard here -- one for four violins, one for four cellos -- have not been so widely heard, but they're well worth your time, as are the performances here by the Silesian Quartet "and friends" are ideal. Chandos' engineering work at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music concert hall in Katowice catches all the considerable detail from the players. What you have here is really a pair of recordings that are both the same and different: The two piano quintets were recorded in 2010, and the two string quartets in 2017 (at the same location). Each half of the program consists of a work from the post-World War II period, when Bacewicz was fusing a Bartókian folkloric style with a degree of experimentation, and one from the 1960s, when Khrushchev's liberalization reached Poland and Bacewicz became familiar with the music of Western experimenters. Perhaps the highlight is the Quartet for four cellos of 1963, where the cellos create dissonant, wall-like clusters of sound, but all four works are idiomatic pieces that deserve a permanent place in the chamber repertory. With this release, maybe that's just what they'll get.
© TiVo
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Piano Quintet No. 1 (Grazyna Bacewicz)
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
PIano Quintet No. 2 (Grazyna Bacewicz)
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Silesian Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist - Wojciech Świtała, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Quartet for 4 Violins (Grazyna Bacewicz)
Arkadiusz Kubica, Artist - Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Szymon Krzeszowiec, Artist, MainArtist - Krzysztof Lasoń, Artist - Małgorzata Wasiucionek, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Arkadiusz Kubica, Artist - Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Szymon Krzeszowiec, Artist, MainArtist - Krzysztof Lasoń, Artist - Małgorzata Wasiucionek, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Arkadiusz Kubica, Artist - Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Szymon Krzeszowiec, Artist, MainArtist - Krzysztof Lasoń, Artist - Małgorzata Wasiucionek, Artist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Quartet for 4 Cellos (Grazyna Bacewicz)
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Polish Cello Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Grazyna Bacewicz, Composer - Polish Cello Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
Album review
The Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz wrote a good deal of chamber music; attractively shaped for the instruments (Bacewicz was a violinist herself), it has grown in popularity. The two piano quintets and two unorthodox quartets heard here -- one for four violins, one for four cellos -- have not been so widely heard, but they're well worth your time, as are the performances here by the Silesian Quartet "and friends" are ideal. Chandos' engineering work at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music concert hall in Katowice catches all the considerable detail from the players. What you have here is really a pair of recordings that are both the same and different: The two piano quintets were recorded in 2010, and the two string quartets in 2017 (at the same location). Each half of the program consists of a work from the post-World War II period, when Bacewicz was fusing a Bartókian folkloric style with a degree of experimentation, and one from the 1960s, when Khrushchev's liberalization reached Poland and Bacewicz became familiar with the music of Western experimenters. Perhaps the highlight is the Quartet for four cellos of 1963, where the cellos create dissonant, wall-like clusters of sound, but all four works are idiomatic pieces that deserve a permanent place in the chamber repertory. With this release, maybe that's just what they'll get.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:24
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Silesian Quartet
- Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz
- Label: Chandos
- Area: Pologne
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
- Period: Modern Style
(C) 2018 Chandos (P) 2018 Chandos
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