Browse: Chamber, Quartets, Bacewicz (composer)

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…

the Quintet of 1939 for violin, viola, cello, oboe and piano is more striking [than the String Quartet] – and the highlight of this recording. The oboe and piano add piquancy, and Mendelson packs... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Dudoks deliver a rhythmically dynamic and wonderfully nuanced account of the Bacewicz. Their Shostakovich is also impressive, projecting tremendous power, ferocity and forward momentum in... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Bacewicz's seven string quartets stand tall in the repertoire of 20th-century chamber music, worthy of comparison with works by more famous composers…Bacewicz wrote for strings with complete... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

The warm, expressionist opening to the fourth quartet is instantly winning, inviting us into a sound world that is at once distinctive yet flecked with echoes of Ravel, Debussy and Shostakovich.... — Classical Music, December 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a vibrant and wonderfully focused performance… The embraces at the end suggested that for the performers, too, it had been equally special. — The Guardian More…