Grażyna Bacewicz: Two Piano Quintets, Quartet for four Violins & Quartet for four Cellos

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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…

Release Date: 6th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN10976
Label: Chandos
Length: 63 minutes

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Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1

Work length23:11

$4.75

$5.85

Wojciech Świtała (piano)
Silesian Quartet
Recorded: 7–12 September 2010
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland

I. Moderato molto espressivo

Track length7:07

$1.60

$1.95

II. Presto - Poco meno mosso

Track length4:14

$1.05

$1.30

III. Grave - Meno mosso

Track length6:36

$1.05

$1.30

IV. Con passione

Track length5:14

$1.05

$1.30

Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 2

Work length17:44

$3.15

$3.90

Wojciech Świtała (piano)
Silesian Quartet
Recorded: 7–12 September 2010
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland

I. Moderato - Più mosso

Track length6:39

$1.05

$1.30

II. Larghetto - Grandioso

Track length6:00

$1.05

$1.30

III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno mosso

Track length5:05

$1.05

$1.30

Bacewicz: Quartet for 4 Violins

Work length10:02

$3.15

$3.90

Szymon Krzeszowiec (violin), Krzysztof Lasoń (violin), Małgorzata Wasiucionek (violin), Arkadiusz Kubica (violin)
Recorded: 26-27 September 2017
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland

I. Allegretto - Allegro giocoso

Track length3:49

$1.05

$1.30

II. Andante tranquillo

Track length3:45

$1.05

$1.30

III. Molto allegro

Track length2:28

$1.05

$1.30

Bacewicz: Quartet for 4 Cellos

Work length12:27

$2.10

$2.60

Polish Cello Quartet
Recorded: 26-27 September 2017
Recording Venue: Concert Hall, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland

I. Narrazione. Dotted Quarter Note = 42

Track length6:44

$1.05

$1.30

II. Riflessioni. Quarter Note = 50

Track length5:43

$1.05

$1.30

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The 2017 Gramophone Award-winning Silesian Quartet here presents its second recording on Chandos, again devoted to the works of the Polish female composer Grazyna Bacewicz, in a rare programme full of contrast and individuality. The four works brought together here – two unusual quartet formations and two piano quintets – form an integral part of the central, chamber music strand in Bacewicz's output. While the Quartet for Four Violins and the First Piano Quintet have maintained a strong presence in both concerts and recordings, the intriguing Quartet for Four Cellos and Second Piano Quintet are lesser-known pieces. This is yet another must-have, preceding the fiftieth year of Bacewicz death commemorations, a composer whose music is now considered by broadcasters, promoters, critics, and artists as an essential part of the Polish repertoire.

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July 2018

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 an assured achievement with a powerful identity…her Second Quintet is confrontational and virtuosic. The Silesians tap into its nervous energy…Look out for more Bacewicz: her time has come.

June 2018

A huge personality. Bacewicz can generate momentum in the space of a four-minute movement and integrates eloquent bleakness with some of the sharpest, most light-footed musical wit since Haydn…This disc deserves to make a lot of converts.

April 2018

If the earliest of the two piano quintets (written in 1952) has a distinct whiff of Shostakovich about it, the second (from 1965) ventures into far more experimental territory, whilst the 1950 Quartet for Four Violins is shot through with echoes of Ravel’s String Quartet.

July 2018

It’s hard to fault the performances and recordings, which together offer all the pungency, bite and textural subtlety that the music demands, and the ensemble work is tight and engaging across all three instrumental configurations. As with the string quartets this music deserves to be a much more regular feature of concert hall programming.

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