Hi Res Download, Bacewicz (composer)
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Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
RecommendedSymphony No. 2 - Piano Concerto - Concerto For Large Symphony Orchestra
Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Grażyna Bacewicz is a composer with purpose and drive...That's the impression left, as so often with her works, by the music on this latest album, performed with equal sense of mission by the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th July 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Symphony No. 1, written during World War Two. Conceived in classic four-movement structure, it gets off to a moody start before picking up rhythmic drive. The whole work sounds arresting thanks... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos, Overture & Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion
Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Concerto Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Concerto
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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. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Altstaedt's musical partnership with Maxim Emelyanychev is as impressive in Britten's Cello Sonata as it is in the Bacewicz concerto...Strongly recommended, especially for the Britten. —
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These are two symphonies that show off the Polish composer at the height of her orchestral powers: in the early 1950s, when her writing was resolutely abstract, sombre at heart, serious in purpose... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Instrumental
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Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 1
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Lukasz Borowicz
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. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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