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Bacewicz & Tansman: Piano Quintets / Kociuban, Messages Quartet
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Bacewicz & Tansman: Piano Quintets / Kociuban, Messages Quartet

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Details

Composer
Grazyna Bacewicz, Aleksander Tansman, Aleksander Tansman
Artist
Malgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera, Oriana Masternak, Maria Shetty, Beata Urbanek-Kalin
Format
CD
Label
DUX
Released
Mar 18, 2022
Catalog #
DUX1792
UPC
5902547017921

About

Julia Kociuban is considered as one of the leading polish pianists of her generation. Her debut solo album “Schumann, Chopin, Bacewicz” was praised by critics as one of the most interesting Polish piano debut of the past years, and album with Bacewicz and Tansman Piano Concertos was nominated for the Polish Music Industry Prize “Fryderyk” in the “Album of the Year – Concerto Music” category.

MESSAGES QUARTET (Małgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera & Oriana Masternak – violin, Maria Shetty – viola, Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska – cello) was founded in 2014 and only a year later won the 2nd prize, Silver Medal, and a special award for the interpretation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s quartet in the 2nd International Chamber Music Competition in Plovdiv (Bulgaria, 2015). The Messages Quartet performs both in Poland and abroad, e.g. in Vienna, London, São Paulo, or Moscow. On a number of occasions, the ensemble has presented a comprehensive and innovative repertoire as part of a series of chamber music concerts at the premises of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

Review:

Both Bacewicz and Tansman are well represented on disc but competing versions of works are valuable not merely in offering a choice – a choice of couplings, for example - but also for interpretative decision-making. On their new Dux recording the Messages Quartet and pianist Julia Kociuban have opted to include Tansman’s Musica a cinque, for piano quintet.

Tansman’s piano quintet was written in 1955. It’s cast in five movements and opens with a smoky Praeludium, continues with the syncopated bravura of a Toccata, adds the compelling stillness of a complex Elegia, and a firefly Divertimento, and then unleashes a fugal finale. In every way it’s a more approachable, less intimidating work than Bacewicz’s Second Quintet though whether it’s greater openheartedness is a match for her more questing technique is another matter. It’s certainly finely played here and makes for a fine programmatic contrast. The booklet is attractive and colourful.

Jonathan Woolf

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Moderato molto espressivo - Allegro 07:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Moderato molto espressivo - Allegro
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  2. 2 II. Presto 04:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Presto
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  3. 3 III. Grave 07:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Grave
    Duration
    07:06
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Con passione 04:46
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Con passione
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  5. 5 I. Moderato 06:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    06:51
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  6. 6 II. Larghetto 06:15
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    06:15
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  7. 7 III. Allegro giocoso 04:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegro giocoso
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Grażyna Bacewicz
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  8. 8 I. Praeludium 02:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Praeludium
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  9. 9 II. Toccata 05:21
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Toccata
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  10. 10 III. Elegia 04:25
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Elegia
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  11. 11 IV. Divertimento 03:14
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Divertimento
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet
  12. 12 V. Finale 03:26
    Track
    12
    Title
    V. Finale
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Alexandre Tansman
    Performer
    Julia Kociuban
    Ensemble
    Messages Quartet