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…a thoroughly rewarding survey of a composer who deserves to be much better known. Ronald Corp and his New London Orchestra are generally persuasive in what is often quite tricky instrumental... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2009 More…

Release Date: 26th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: CDA67783
Label: Hyperion
Length: 67 minutes

Bacewicz: Concerto for Strings

Work length15:01

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New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Allegro

Track length5:10

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II. Andante

Track length4:28

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III. Vivo

Track length5:23

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Bacewicz: Sinfonietta for string orchestra

Work length11:11

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New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Allegro

Track length4:13

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II. Andante

Track length3:48

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III. Vivace

Track length3:10

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Bacewicz: Symphony for string orchestra

Work length21:45

$4.40

$6.00

New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:08

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II. Adagio

Track length5:11

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III. Allegretto

Track length4:29

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IV. Theme and Variations: Misterioso

Track length6:57

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Bacewicz: Music for strings, trumpets and percussion

Work length19:11

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New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp

I. Allegro

Track length7:25

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II. Adagio

Track length6:03

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III. Vivace

Track length5:43

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This new disc from the New London Orchestra under Ronald Corp showcases the work of Grazyna Bacewicz (1909–1969), whose centenary is celebrated this year. It contributes greatly to the knowledge of her music outside her native Poland, where she is still an important and well-loved cultural figure, one of those who led to Polish music becoming one of the main contributors to European culture in the second half of the twentieth century. It contains the premiere recordings of both the Sinfonietta and the Symphony for string orchestra.

Bacewicz was one of the most significant composers of the mid-twentieth-century, with strong roots in the culture of Paris, where she studied both composition and violin in the early 1930s. Her most striking music is that which draws on her experience of the neoclassicism of inter-war France. She emphasizes neoclassicism’s vitality and clarity while at the same time giving it a combination of delicacy and muscularity which is all her own. While she demonstrates both wit and joie de vivre, her music is never frivolous.

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December 2009

…a thoroughly rewarding survey of a composer who deserves to be much better known. Ronald Corp and his New London Orchestra are generally persuasive in what is often quite tricky instrumental writing: the recording is fine.

Bacewicz - Music for string orchestra

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