Bacewicz: Piano Quintets, Quartet for 4 Violins, Quartet for 4 Cellos / Silesian Quartet

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Also available from the Silesian Quartet on Chandos: Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets The 2017 Gramophone Award-winning Silesian Quartet here presents its second recording on Chandos,...
Also available from the Silesian Quartet on Chandos: Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets

The 2017 Gramophone Award-winning Silesian Quartet here presents its second recording on Chandos, again devoted to the works of the Polish female composer Grazyna Bacewicz, in a rare programme full of contrast and individuality. The four works brought together here – two unusual quartet formations and two piano quintets – form an integral part of the central, chamber music strand in Bacewicz's output. While the Quartet for Four Violins and the First Piano Quintet have maintained a strong presence in both concerts and recordings, the intriguing Quartet for Four Cellos and Second Piano Quintet are lesser-known pieces. This is yet another must-have, preceding the fiftieth year of Bacewicz's death commemorations, a composer whose music is now considered by broadcasters, promoters, critics, and artists as an essential part of the Polish repertoire.

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REVIEW:

Bacewicz can generate momentum in the space of a four-minute movement and integrates eloquent bleakness with some of the sharpest, most light-footed musical wit since Haydn…This disc deserves to make a lot of converts.

– Gramophone


Product Description:


  • Release Date: April 06, 2018


  • UPC: 095115197622


  • Catalog Number: CHAN 10976


  • Label: Chandos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Polish Cello Quartet, Silesian String Quartet


  • Performer: Arkadiusz Kubica, Krzysztof Lason, Małgorzata Wasiucionek, Szymon Krzeszowiec, Wojciech Switala



Works:


  1. Quintet for Piano and Strings no 1

    Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz

    Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet

    Performer: Wojciech Switala (Piano)


  2. Quintet for Piano and Strings no 2

    Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz

    Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet

    Performer: Wojciech Switala (Piano)


  3. Quartet for 4 violins

    Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz

    Performer: Szymon Krzeszowiec (Violin), Arkadiusz Kubica (Violin), Krzysztof Lason (Violin), Małgorzata Wasiucionek (Violin)


  4. Quartet for 4 Celli

    Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz

    Ensemble: Polish Cello Quartet