{"title":"The Female Composers Sale","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOver 120 titles\u003c\/strong\u003e featuring music by world-famous female composers are on sale now at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArkivMusic!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003eDiscover works composed by acclaimed female composers including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrusa\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrym\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSchumann\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eClarke\u003c\/b\u003e, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003eShop the sale now before it ends at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e9:00am ET, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"der-geiger-von-echternach","title":"Koster: Der Geiger von Echternach \/ Cantoreggi, Weber, Singer Pur","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe “Geiger von Echternach” deals with the origins of the Echternach Jumping Procession, which dates back to the Middle Ages and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 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The composer and poet are equally interested in a detailed description of the different emotional states of the musician Veits, which modulate his violin playing and move the listener more and more until they fall into a dance rage from which only Saint Willibrord can free them.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Oehms Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44627065372906,"sku":"4260330917218","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3998640-2744483.jpg?v=1749339545"},{"product_id":"ukrainian-piano-quintets","title":"Lyatoshinsky, Poleva, Silvestrov: Ukrainian Piano Quintets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eString quartet-mates Bogdana Pivnenko, Taras Yaropud, Kateryna Suprun, and Yurii Pogoretskyi join forces with pianist Iryna Starodub to bring some of Ukraine's most brilliant twentieth-century music to the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoris Lyatoshynsky was a leading member of a new generation of Ukrainian composers that emerged in the 1920s. His expansively conceived \u003cem\u003eUkrainian Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e finds him at his most emotionally overt, with a heartfelt Lento e tranquillo second movement. Dedicated to Lyatoshynsky, Valentin Silvestrov’s \u003cem\u003ePiano Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e dates from the start of his Modernist odyssey of the 1960s, while Victoria Poleva’s withdrawn and secretive \u003cem\u003eSimurgh-quintet\u003c\/em\u003e is part of a style that embraces spiritual themes and musical simplicity, referred to as sacred (or 'holy') minimalism in the West.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViolinist Bogdana Pivnenko and her team make a strong case for the Poleva's Simurgh-quintet, showing great sensitivity, yet also enough dynamic range to create a sense of momentum towards the ending. The pioneering nature of this disc will hopefully encourage more exploration of this repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- Gramophone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44627064684778,"sku":"747313909872","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4021747-2771258.jpg?v=1749241329"},{"product_id":"bacewicz-piano-works-peter-jablonski","title":"Bacewicz: Piano Works \/ Peter Jablonski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn this album, Peter Jablonski’s third for Ondine, the pianist presents Grażyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and sonatas, barely known outside her native Poland. Jablonski’s albums have received an enthusiastic response and his previous release received Editor’s Choice from \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn recent years the music of Grażyna Bacewicz has been enjoying increasing popularity in concert hall programs. Bacewicz was a major Polish composer and a versatile musician: a child prodigy violinist, she was also an accomplished pianist. As a composer, she is known for her inventive, complex, and original musical language, and particularly many of her works for violin are well known. Bacewicz studied first at the Warsaw Conservatory and briefly continued her studies in Paris before returning back home. In 1934, she received a position of concertmaster at the Polish Radio Orchestra. This position proved invaluable to her as a composer, giving her insights into each instrument’s possibilities and orchestral composition. Her music displays many characteristic traits of the twentieth-century that are to be heard in the writings of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Lutosławski, among others. Jablonski’s piano album covers only eight short years during which the works presented here were composed and brings together, for the first time, both piano sonatas, and both sets of etudes. \u003cem\u003eSonata No. 1\u003c\/em\u003e for solo piano was composed in 1949, but went unpublished for over seventy years until Peter Jablonski edited it for PWM.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two-fold pleasure of this release is experiencing the interesting if unfamiliar music of an important woman composer, played by a pianist in the full flower of his mature, imaginative artistry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e, March 2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBacewicz’s imagination is vast—as Jablonski’s stunning, post-Lisztian performance reveals… He persuades us that Bacewicz’s Etudes are up there with the great sets (Chopin, Liszt, Ligeti)…this is a very valuable release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e--International Piano\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s a sense of Bacewicz’s compositional imagination really taking wing in these pieces, and Jablonski commits to her vision. The First Sonata feels full of ambition, and Jablonski draws out all of its rhythmic and emotional complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--BBC \u003cem\u003eMusic\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGraźyna Bacewicz was probably the most important Polish composer between Szymanowski and Lutosławski...she was also an excellent pianist, good enough to perform in public on this instrument also, and she composed a fair amount for it. There is too much to fit onto one disc and so all recordings of her piano music have involved choices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Jablonski has made an excellent choice here. Indeed, I think he has chosen the best of her piano music, which has involved excluding some attractive but lesser works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI have nothing but praise for the Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski’s performances here. Not only is he in full command of the many notes and often complex textures but he articulates them and makes them musical. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere are good notes (in English only) and the recorded sound is excellent. This is now the Bacewicz piano recital to go for.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003cem\u003eMusicWeb International \u003c\/em\u003e(Stephen Barber)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis splendid disc will appeal both to piano mavens and fans of good twentieth-century music alike. Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-69) was a very distinguished composer, and although better known (perhaps) for her solo violin pieces, she had a real feel for keyboard sonority and color. All of the music on this splendidly played disc is worth hearing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou can listen to this first-rate disc straight through without a moment’s hesitation. It should win her many friends, I should think, not just for Jablonski’s excellent interpretations, but also for Ondine’s gorgeous sonics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e--ClassicsToday.com\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliant playing of music that belongs firmly in the concert repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf all the female 20th-century composers whose work is now being rediscovered and reassessed, the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) may be the most accomplished and individual. Once a child prodigy on drums, Jablonski’s rhythm is rock solid, but he is also capable of creating a flow. His dazzling, sympathetic performances are tremendous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e--Limelight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ondine","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44627049545962,"sku":"761195139929","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4046164-2785869.jpg?v=1749235845"},{"product_id":"three-centuries-of-female-composers","title":"Three Centuries of Female Composers","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRanging from the 18th century to the music of our time, this collection of critically acclaimed recordings explores the significant contribution to solo piano repertoire made by a wide variety of women composers. These rare and important pieces include the works of the celebrated pianist Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy and of Hélène de Montgeroult, whose sonatas are distinctive additions to the Classical and early Romantic periods. Maria Szymanowska’s deft dances contrast with the fearsome demands of Teresa Carreño, herself a great virtuoso. Vítězslava Kaprálová was the most important female Czech composer of the 20th century, while Agathe Backer Grøndahl was one of Norway’s most respected composer-pianists. 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Horvath makes appealingly light work of her nine keyboard sonatas, several recorded for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\"\u003e-- BBC Music Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\" id=\"ctl00_MainContent_gvReviews_cell19_12_ASPxPopupControl1_ASPxLabel2\"\u003eNicolas Horvath clearly enjoys de Jouy’s work, and delivers readings which are spirited and lyrical, playful and reflective, easing into the minor mode (in which most of the sonatas were composed) as though at the daybreak of Romanticism. In this particular recording, I was struck by the clarity of sound, which made it easier to hear the evenness and responsiveness of Horvath’s touch\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dxeBase_PlasticBlue\"\u003e-- Fanfare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenezuelan pianist-composer Teresa Carreño had a dramatic, colorful career that is hard to believe. Of the works presented in this fascinating recording, all but one are world premieres. This music has a gentle melancholy. Several of these miniatures have Chopinesque harmonies and perfumes. The album ends on an upbeat note, the composer’s Opus 1, a highly accomplished waltz full of scintillating episodes written for Gottschalk. The latter must have been knocked out by this charmer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexandra Oehler plays with sensitive phrasing and skillful voicing. Her refined musical sensibility is just right for this repertory. The recording, like the music, is warm and inviting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- American Record Guide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Piano","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44627045155050,"sku":"747313989720","price":34.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4057373-2799875.jpg?v=1749244796"},{"product_id":"grondahl-piano-music","title":"Backer Grøndahl: Piano Music \/ Smiseth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNote: This album is also available in the 10-CD box set, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/collections\/celebrate-womens-history-month\/products\/three-centuries-of-female-composers\" title=\"Three Centuries of Female Composers\"\u003eThree Centuries of Female Composers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHailed by George Bernard Shaw as one of the 19th century’s greatest virtuoso pianists, Agathe Backer Grøndahl was also a pioneer among women composers, juggling marriage, motherhood and an extensive career. She was taught by Liszt in Weimar, and as one of Norway’s most respected composer-pianists, created a large body of work that displays colourful stylistic variety and poetic breadth. The beautiful \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSérénade \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrois Morceaux\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOp. 15 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emay well be Backer Grøndahl’s most popular piano composition, but her concert études are virtuoso masterpieces – the folk-tune arrangements drawn from her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOp. 30 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOp. 33 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esets illustrate her perceptive absorption of her country’s folk music. 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COATES\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003e Symphonies: No. 1;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eNo. 7;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e2 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eNo. 14\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e3 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e?\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Jorge Rotter, cond;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Siegerland O;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Olaf Henzold, cond;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Bavarian RSO;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Christoph Poppen, cond;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Munich CO;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Raymond Curfs (kd)\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"SUPER12\"\u003e3 \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e?\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e NAXOS 8.559289 (65:47) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eFirst, this is Gloria Coates (b. 1938) not Eric. Second, we have a welcome addition to a still-too-small discography of one of the most original living American composers. I will confess this is my first encounter (far too late) with her music, but I have been primed by word of mouth, above all by former \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e critic Kyle Gann, who praises her lavishly in his \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAmerican Music in the Twentieth Century.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e And the advance word has been confirmed by the music I?ve finally heard. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eCoates is definitely a composer in the mold of the American ?ultramodernists? of the early 20th century. The listener will immediately sense an adventurous, uncompromising, cantankerous spirit in her work that is a descendant of such as Ives, Ruggles, Cowell, and Crawford. Her most distinguishing technique is that of the string glissando, which in lesser hands can be a cheap symbol of modernist instability, and a passport to aural seasickness. Not here. Coates is careful to place her sliding tones at the service of larger processes: canons in particular, or ?additive\/subtractive? lines that expand and contract the range of the glissando over time and in perceptible patterns. She?s a wonderfully paradoxical composer because, on the one hand, the music is highly experimental in its surface technique, but on the other hand, classical in its attention to form and development within the symphonic argument. She?s a very conceptual composer, as both the titles of movements (Symphony No. 7?s movements are ?The Whirligig of Time,? ?The Glass of Time,? and ?Corridors of Time?) and her attachment to strict processes, nowadays called algorithms, may suggest. But no matter how idealistic the music, it always carries a visceral impact, or in good old American terms, a real wallop. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe three works on this program nicely cover the composer?s entire symphonic cycle (up to this point), dipping into the start, the middle, and end. Symphony No. 1 (1972?73) is her best-known work, also referred to as ?Music on Open Strings.? The work begins with an alternate pentatonic tuning of the instruments, and in the third movement incorporates the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003escordatura\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e (retuning) of the strings back to the conventional tuning into the real-time performance fabric. Not all the sounds are just the five pitches, though, as Coates inserts all sorts of glissandos that enrich the texture, even if they don?t establish other firm pitch centers. It?s a highly original work, and a bracing combination of both minimalist and modernist practices. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe Symphony No. 7 (1990; a tribute to ?Those who brought down the Wall in PEACE,? though there is little I hear that?s programmatic in the actual music) is the most European sounding of the three works: not a surprise, as the composer has lived her mature artistic life in Germany, another marker of her ?outsider? status. It?s highly abstract in its materials, and verges on being the work whose glissandos wear out their welcome. But just when I started feeling the music was becoming predictable (in the first and third movements), it marshals its forces to create overwhelming climaxes that simultaneously sound surprising yet natural. I don?t know exactly what the technique is, but I suspect Coates has deep processes at work that lead to a culmination one desires but can?t easily predict. The relentless growth and impact of the piece, a storm in sound, is similar to Xenakis?s \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJonchaies\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e for orchestra, though I don?t claim it?s quite as great a work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe final work, Symphony No. 14 (2001?02, ?Symphony in Microtones?), is by far the most American-sounding piece, for at least two obvious reasons. First, the piece (for strings and timpani?only the Seventh uses full orchestra on this collection) divides the string orchestra into two halves, tuned a quarter tone apart. Some of the music is so dense one doesn?t really perceive the differences, but in cases of the hymn quotation discussed below, it can be striking. The effect is the most Ivesian of this set and, in particular, I think of the composer of the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eRobert Browning Overture\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e as an antecedent here. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eSecond, the first two movements quote pieces by Supply Belcher (a late 18th-century Maine hymnodist) and William Billings, the Boston Revolutionary-period composer who was himself an aesthetic revolutionary of the first order. The Billings choice is particularly apt, as it is ?Jargon,? his completely atonal (though better stated, it could be called ?non-functional,? as all the intervals are consonant, but they don?t make up traditional tonal chords) choral work, a message from another universe to the 18th century. In both movements, the antique sources emerge from Coates?s swirling textures like apparitions, an effect that is magical and unnerving. In the Billings movement, after appearing, the source is then stated with the quarter-tone difference, which feels like a true enrichment rather than a mere distortion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eIn short, this is remarkable music. At times it can seem too crude and obvious, spurning standards of polish and taste, and then at the next moment it blindsides you with the power of its vision, a balanced match of manner and substance, form and content, style and idea. And on top of it all, if the booklet?s cover is any guide, Coates is a talented visual artist as well, in the tradition of Ruggles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThe sonic standards of the disc are variable: Symphony No. 1 is a recording from 1980, with more surface noise than we?re now accustomed to, and No. 7 comes from a concert recording of the world premiere. 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If \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eI\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, of all people, can say that of a modern composer considered by not a few to be difficult and uncompromising, you can be assured that this is music easily grasped and of genuine expressive appeal. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eGra?yna Bacewicz (1909–1969) was born in ?ód?, Poland. In 1928, she enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory, where she studied violin, piano, and composition. Following her graduation in 1932, she was granted a stipend by Ignacy Paderewski to continue her studies in Paris at the École Normale de Musique under Nadia Boulanger. She also continued violin studies under Henri Touret and, subsequently, under the famous Hungarian violin pedagogue, Carl Flesch. During the 1930s, Bacewicz served as principal violin of the Polish Radio Orchestra. Following a serious car accident in 1954, she turned her attention exclusively to composition. Not unexpectedly, much of her output consists of chamber works for various combinations of string instruments or, as in the case here, for violin and piano. However, she also wrote a number of concertos, symphonies, orchestral works, choral and vocal pieces, and even an opera. Her catalog of published works is quite respectable, though only a small portion of it has been recorded. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThis new offering does not purport to be Bacewicz’s complete \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eœuvre\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e for violin and piano; in fact, the program carries the title, “Sonatas for Violin and Piano,” though as is obvious from the headnote, the pieces do not all fit that description. What really appeals to me about this music is that the instruments are not mistreated or abused; they are not forced to engage in perverted, unnatural acts. The violin is an instrument of melody and song, and that is how Bacewicz writes for it. Begin your listening with track 15 on CD 1, the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eSonata da camera\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e. It starts off with a wistful reverie ever so distantly reminiscent of a melodic line by Bach, but one that has been twice filtered, once through Dvo?ák and again through Shostakovich. It’s such a lovely thing that I put my CD player in repeat mode and listened to it over and over again. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eBy no means is this passage an exception among over two hours’ worth of music. But there is so much more to Bacewicz than an extraordinary ear for the voluptuousness of the violin. These pieces are filled with exhilarating rhythms (take the third movement of the Sonata No. 4), breathless \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003emoto perpetuo\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e movements (take the last movement of the Partita), and something of a rarity in much modern music that takes itself so seriously, a real sense of well-being, good-natured playfulness, and humor (take the third movement of the Sonata No. 3, the \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eHumoreske,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e or the concluding movement of the Concertino, which has about it a puckish character akin to a Mendelssohn scherzo). Then there are the Three Dances that sound like a cross between Grieg, Ole Bull, and Gershwin—delightful. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eBacewicz eschews all that is abrasive, coarse, and ugly. 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