The works on this recording were written by four roughly contemporary Polish composers who settled and pursued their careers in different parts of the world. Grażyna Bacewicz’s First Violin Concerto displays her own glittering
Komponist: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Michal Spisak (1914-1965), Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Górecki: Little Requiem for a Certain Polka - Concerto-Cantata - Harpsichord Concerto - 3 Dances
Górecki is an important figure in Polish music, and his Third Symphony is one of the great ‘success stories’ in all twentieth century symphonic music. This deeply moving quality permeates his other works, but he was also a more
Komponist: Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (1933-2010)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Musicologist Adrian Thomas considered Grażyna Bacewicz’s string quartets “unrivalled in 20th-century Polish music and… one of the century’s most significant contributions to the genre”. Her folk-music infused First Quartet dates from
Komponist: Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Auf dem vierten ECM-Album des Wasilewski Trios gibt es einen besonderen Gast, den lyrisch spielenden schwedischen Saxofonisten Joakim Milder, den die drei Polen von seiner Mitwirkung an Tomasz Stankos Litania-Projekt her kennen.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
George Bacewicz: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 / Enescu, G.: Violin Sonata No. 2
Bacewicz was the most prominent Polish female composer of the twentieth century and a renowned violinist who, by contemporary accounts, was surpassed only by Ginette Neveu and David Oistrakh.
Komponist: George Enescu (1881–1955), George Bacewicz
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
