Browse: Bacewicz (composer)

Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There’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... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Bacewicz’s music is always absorbing, with great rhythmic drive and underlying tension. The works on this beautifully performed disc add playfulness and sonic adventure to that drama. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The moody opening movement (Drammatico) of Symphony No. 3 lives up to its title here in a performance of energ y and drive under Łukasz Borowicz. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For those invigorated by the Silesian Quartet’s complete quartet set, here’s an exciting new addition: two piano quintets. They are works of real substance and originality. The First (1952) is... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

From Emily Howard’s elegant, linear melody to Sally Beamish’s craggy soundscape, Humphreys channels Paganini’s virtuosity. She also displays playfulness and a light touch in pieces such as that... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Perfrormance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Piano Concerto (1949) might well appeal to those who enjoy Prokofiev and Bartók, though its sweep, energy and internal logic are entirely Bacewicz’s own. Peter Jablonski, whose recording... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is one of those rare programmes in which the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…