Also available from the Silesian Quartet on Chandos: Bacewicz: Piano Quintets, Quartet for 4 Violins, Quartet for 4 Cellos



For their debut release on Chados, award winning Silesian Quartet presents the complete string quartets by Grazyna Bacewicz. Bacewicz's life was conditioned by the political and military events of her time, making her works reflect not only traumas but also the stylistic shifting into twentieth-century music. These seven string quartets have withstood the test of time and showcase Bacewicz's understanding of all string instruments.

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Composed between 1938 and 1965, these seven works add up to a compelling portrait of a powerfully original creative spirit. The whole group seem to understand this life-affirming music from the inside.

– Gramophone

A tremendous achievement.

– BBC Music Magazine

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If the 17 string quartets by Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1757 to 1831) have been neglected, it's not due to their quality, but it's due to the fact that, until recently, few or only inadequate modern editions of these works were tangible. Now available these quartets are presented here, thanks to the meritorious Pleyel series at Ars Produktion.

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A comprehensive and richly varied Delius programme has been put together form this new two-CD collection. Vernon Handley's splendid Ulster performance of the comparatively rarely heard 'Florida Suite' is complemented with, among others, 'North Country Sketches', a work which reveals a Debussyan influence. Richard Hickox is a sensitive and flexible Delian and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra plays passionately for him, especially in 'The Walk to the Paradise Garden'. The collection demonstrates the glittering qualities of Delius's enchanting music which evokes an atmosphere of serene pleasure in nature. These are conductors and orchestras performing at the top of their form, and the anthology will serve collectors as the perfect introduction to this marvellous composer.

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Import Hybrid-SACD pressing.

Includes work(s) by various composers. Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karel Ancerl.

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Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger make their audite debut with the three sonatas for violin and piano by the great 19th c. Romanticist Edvard Grieg, who himself rated these three sonatas as amongst his best works. Violinist Franziska Pietsch gave her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin aged eleven, after which she regularly performed as a soloist in the GDR until leaving East Germany in 1986, enabling her to pursue a career in the West. Pianist Detlev Eisinger gave his first piano recital at age thirteen, his busy international career now almost three decades long.

The music gathered here originates in two sources. On one hand, it encompasses a great portion of the production of music for guitar with other instruments that composer Hebert Vázquez created over the years. On the other, it is the result of his extensive collaboration with extraordinary Japanese guitarist Norio Sato and the members of Nomad Ensemble.

This collaboration has led Vázquez to travel to Japan on several occasions and given him the opportunity to glimpse into its culture, as well as some of its countless artistic expressions. “My way of perceiving the world has been enriched by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Basho, Issa, Buson, and with the sounds of the biwa, the sakuhachi and koto” writes the composer.

The pieces that make up this album testify to this experience.

Over 20,000 discs sold, more than 220 concerts at home and abroad, two extensive tours... + Those are just a few examples of the successes gained by the Gipsy Way project in the wake of the 2008 album Pavel Šporcl recorded with his Gipsy band. + Six years later, in tandem with Supraphon, the violinist held two concerts at Prague’s legendary Domovina Studio, whose fruit is the new CD, Gipsy Fire. + On this new release a succession of technically challenging “Gipsy” repertoire pieces are blended with catchy and melancholic film melodies (Grand blond avec une chaussure noire and Fiddler on the Roof, and a theme Pavel recorded for the Czech movie Divided We Fall) and Piazzolla’s breathtakingly beautiful prayer Ave Maria. + Pavel and the Gipsy Way Ensemble play as if their very lives are in the balance; the audience’s frenzied response indicates that they don’t want the music to ever stop.

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