"A Portrait" collects several of Bacewicz's works for violin. Some are for solo violin, and the rest for violin and piano. All are exceptionally well-crafted. Bacewicz knew her instrument. Her music pushes the boundaries of violin technique at almost every turn. ...
Composer: Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Monologue: Polish Solo Cello Works
This album features pieces for solo cello, displaying the extraordinary technical and tone colour possibilities of this instrument. The album is also a musical journey through a century of Polish chamber music composed for this instrument by outstanding artists. ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1902–1969), Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020), Jerzy Fitelberg (1903-1951), Piotr Moss (1949), Jan Krenz (1926-2020)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A fascinating and eclectic collection of caprices ranging from Paganini to a wide selection of contemporary composers, some of whom contribute not only individual works, but who joined together for a splendid composite set of variations on Paganini’s famous 24th caprice. This is a personal, daring and exciting album of dazzling virtuosity! ...
Composer: Tom Coult (1988), Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Freya Waley-Cohen (1986), Oliver Leith (1990), Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Roxanna Panufnik (1968), Laurence Osborn (1989), Mark O'Connor (1962), Errollyn Wallen (1958), Seonaid Aitken
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Lydia Mordkovitch Plays Bacewicz & Enescu
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. She left a legacy of over 200 compositions, many of which have never been heard in the West. ...
Composer: George Enescu (1881-1955), Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This album is pianist Peter Jablonski’s third solo album for the Ondine label. In this album Jablonski represents Grazyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and piano sonatas which are hardly known outside of her native Poland. Jablonski’s piano albums have received an enthusiastic ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album is both a continuation and the capstone of the idea of recording all five sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven for piano and cello. The presented album contains the Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1, which opens the cycle of these works, as well as the Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1 and the Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Recording an album is always an amazing adventure, this time even more so, and we are very grateful to everyone who made this album possible. But why was it so special? Firstly, because of the choice of program, of little known, exciting works, and secondly due to the fact that ...
Composer: Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2007), Jennifer Higdon (1962)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For her debut album, pianist Joanna Sochacka performs works by Grazyna Bacewicz, including the world phonographic premieres of the Sonata (1930) and the Etude (1949). "It is not very common to come across a composer whose genius is being praised, but whose music is more often discussed than performed at the same time. ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
TRPTK presents the new recording "The Boulanger Legacy", a tribute to the Boulanger sisters. Violinist Merel Vercammen graduated cum laude from the Royal College of Music in London. She won many prestigious awards and has since performed in many important concert halls worldwide. ...
Composer: Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Grazyna Bacewicz (1902–1969), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Teach Me! (The Students of Nadia Boulanger)
Nadia Boulanger, or: Teaching as a Relationship. “I was accustomed to say that the composer must look far ahead into the future of his music. This seems to me to be the male train of thought: thinking at once of the whole ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Compositions from both East and West here bring together the powerful voices of six women composers from contrasting cultures. Their music ranges from the Romantic period via Impressionism and Neoclassicism to the present. Vivid impressions alternate with absolute music, ...
Composer: Vítězslava Kaprálová, Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, Henriëtte Bosmans, Fanny Hensel, Stephanie Haensler
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
20th Century Polish Chamber Music
Three works by Polish composers of great stature: the music of Karol Szymanowski is now very well known; he was responsible for the first real flowering of Polish music after Chopin, developing from the Romantic to expressionism to modernism. ...
Composer: Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937), Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Grayna Bacewicz
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“Europe is different, every country is different,” says violinist Adam Bałdych, “but music is a language which can bring us together, to one place.” He, Dutch pianist Rogier Telderman and French cellist Vincent Courtois combine and juxtapose their different sounds and heritages. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Tansman & Bacewicz: Piano Concertos
This album by pianist Julia Kociuban includes the Piano Concertos of Alexandre Tansman and Grazyna Bacewicz. Pawel Przytocki conducts the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra. The history of Polish music has seen many cases of instrumentalists and composers who enjoyed great ..
Composer: Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Grażyna Bacewicz
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It has been an amazing journey recording the violin and piano works of Grazyna Bacewicz (including two world premieres!) - we hope that while listening to our album you will experience the excitement that we felt and tried to share in our performances. ...
Composer: Grażyna Bacewicz
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Grażyna Bacewicz: Complete Violin Sonatas
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Grażyna Bacewicz’s death, Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds and Ivan Donchev have recorded her complete Sonatas and Partitas for violin. This is vivacious, sensitive, mischievous music that recalls the gentleness of the interwar period...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Maciej Staszewski: On the Trail
Guitarist and composer Maciej Staszewski presents an album of his own works including the Concertino for guitar and string orchestra, Alcazar and On The Trail. Staszewski plays the guitar on the album, accompanied by The PRIMUZ String Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Lodz, conducted by Lukasz Blaszczyk. ...
Composer: Maciej Staszewski
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Germany’s youngest top orchestra is already releasing its eighth album with GENUIN. This time around, the German String Philharmonic is presenting repertoire from late Romanticism up to the present day. The program includes works by Elgar and Suk, Mahler's famous Adagietto, ...
Composer: Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Edward William Elgar (1857-1934), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
The acclaimed violinist Jennifer Pike returns to Chandos to explore her heritage through the repertoire of a group of composers fundamental to the history of Polish music for the violin. From Janiewicz in the late eighteenth century right through to Bacewicz in the middle of the twentieth ...
Composer: Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
