Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4, Piano Quintet No. 1
This recording marks an important addition to the discography of Grażyna Bacewicz, a composer whose growing recognition stems from the exceptional quality of her music and its direct resonance with listeners. The String Quartet No. 4 (1951) and Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952) embody these ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Vol. 2
This album forms the conclusion to our journey through Tchaikovsky’s complete string quartets. We explore the limits of his output as a composer of chamber music, from his earliest single-movement student work up until his last string quartet. Tchaikovsky was, and in so many ways still is, a cult figure whose genius and artistry has been somewhat obscured by his celebrity status and the worldwide popularity of ‘Brand Tchaikovsky’ embodied in his symphonies, operas and ballet music. ...
Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Pangea, which is violinist Lea Brückner’s debut album, combines the ideas of expanding and illuminating the diversity of classical music. The selection of works takes the listener on a journey through nine countries, musical styles such as impressionism, minimalism and jazz, and displays the ...
Composer: Grigoras Dinicu (1889-1949), Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), Myroslaw Skoryk (1938-2020), William Kroll (1901-1980), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Aleksey Igudesman (1973), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bacewicz, Enescu, Ysaÿe: Music for Strings
For this their fourth album of music for string orchestra, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London present a programme of works by three composers from the Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy, who were all themselves virtuosic string players. George Enescu studied in Paris and Vienna, spent much of his life in ..
Composer: Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), George Enescu (1881-1955), Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The album recorded by the NFM children's choirs, the Rondo Vocal Ensemble and the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra conducted by Małgorzata Podzielny features songs from films about Mr Kleks, arranged by Michał Ziółkowski. Well-known songs, composed by Andrzej Korzyński et al., have been arranged by ...
Composer: Michal Ziolkowski (1991)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Forget This Night explores impermanence and desire through songs by Lili Boulanger, Karol Szymanowski, and Grażyna Bacewicz. The heart of the program is Clairières dans le ciel, Lili Boulanger’s only song cycle and an overlooked masterpiece of the ...
Composer: Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Raphaëlle Moreau and Célia Oneto Bensaid take a tour of Europe through four female composers who were celebrated during their lifetime but have since fallen into guilty oblivion. Four different languages, three sonatas at the turn of the 1920s, two miniatures from the immediate post-war period: a rich sound photograph that finally gives ...
Composer: Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923), Marguerite Canal (1890-1978)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
The three works on this album were all composed between 1943 and 1953. Despite the extreme experiences and difficulties she faced during this undoubtedly most tragic time in Poland’s history, Grażyna Bacewicz managed to compose outstanding works which constitute splendid testimony to the vibrant creative potency for which ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol. 2
Internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski is known as a fervent champion of Polish music. After his first album with Chopin’s Mazurkas, released in October 2022, with this second volume Jablonski continues the recording of some of his dearest works for the piano. For Chopin, the Mazurkas became a deeply personal, ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This recital brings together two established classics from the 20th century with lesser-known works from the repertoire for violin and piano. Alongside Ravel’s Sonata, a work that reveals the influence of jazz on the French composer, and Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata, Op. 94a, an idiomatic arrangement of its original version ...
Composer: Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), Arvo Pärt (1935), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Véronique Mathieu and Stephanie Chua present INVOCATION, a collection of works for violin and piano written by female-identifying composers of unique heritages, backgrounds, and cultures. With a wide range of aesthetics and a variety of compositional eras, INVOCATION presents a collection of wonderfully animated performances that ...
Composer: Amy Beach (1867-1944), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), Alice Ping Yee Ho, Florence Price (1887-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Joachim Mendelson, Grażyna Bacewicz: Chamber Works
The award-winning Silesian quartet present a new album featuring two composers from Warsaw – Joachim Mendelson and Grażnya Bacewicz. After completing his music studies in Warsaw and Berlin, Joachim Mendelson moved to Paris in 1929, where he joined the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais, a society founded in ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Joachim Mendelson (1897-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For their fourth recording on Alpha Classics, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra - who bring together the best Estonian talent and leading musicians from around the world each year in Pärnu - celebrate composers from Estonia and Poland, two nations closely connected by their history. Eduard Tubin ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1902-1969), Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Eduard Tubin (1905-1982)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The music of Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) has been enjoying a revival during the past two decades. Bacewicz was an outstanding figure in 20th-century music, a major Polish composer and a versatile musician. This album by the award-winning pianist Peter Jablonski, pianist Elisabeth Braus, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Polish Music for Cello & Orchestra
For its new recording project, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with its musical and artistic director Andrzej Boreyko has invited Polish cello virtuoso Marcin Zdunik. On Polish Music for Cello and Orchestra, the artists present four compositions. ...
Composer: Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Henryk Hubertus Jablonski (1915-1989), Milosz Magin (1929-1999)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers
Rosalind Ventris’s debut solo album features a selection of music for unacccompanied viola composed between 1930 (Imogen Holst’s impressive Suite for Viola) and the present day (a 2020 lockdown miniature by Thea Musgrave). The largely British and Irish programme allows Ventris to revive substantial works by important yet still often ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bacewicz: Music for String Orchestra
Grażyna BACEWICZ was born on 5 February 1909 in Łódź. In 1919, she joined the Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowa Music Conservatory in Łódź, where she took violin and piano lessons. After her family had moved to Warsaw, she continued her education at the local conservatory under the supervision of Kazimierz Sikorski (composition), Józef Jarzębski (violin), ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bacewicz: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 1
The symphonic oeuvre of the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz has never before been recorded in its entirety 'from one source', so that the series beginning here represents a pioneering act. The Third Symphony for large symphony orchestra was written in early 1952 and the monumental and pathetic music shows a hitherto unknown face of the ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Reflections: Shostakovich & Bacewicz
The music by Dmitri Shostakovich has been both renounced and embraced. The receptive history of his music has been coloured by the fierce battle between supporters and opponents of his music to this day. On their new album REFLECTIONS, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam presents a plea for ambiguity in music of the 20th century. ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Campagnoli: 41 Caprices for Viola, Op. 22, arranged for Viola & Piano by Carl Albert Tottmann
The considerable fame that Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827) achieved during his own lifetime was largely due to his contribution to violin studies. The 41 Caprices he wrote for viola and the 7 Divertimenti for solo violin are still in use today. Campagnoli’s career as a concert performer began in Rome in 1775, continuing in a long tour of the courts of ...
Composer: Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
