Bacewicz: Music for String Orchestra

To say the music of Grazyna Bacewicz is utterly unknown outside her native Poland would be a bit of an exaggeration, but only a bit. Though she ranks as one of the finest Polish composers of the generation after Szymanowski and before Lutoslawski, Bacewicz's music is rarely programmed and even more rarely recorded. This 2009 Hyperion disc with Ronald Corp leading the New London Orchestra is especially welcome since it contains four of her works, two of them premiere recordings. Three of the pieces here, including the ... Read More

To say the music of Grazyna Bacewicz is utterly unknown outside her native Poland would be a bit of an exaggeration, but only a bit. Though she ranks as one of the finest Polish composers of the generation after Szymanowski and before Lutoslawski, Bacewicz's music is rarely programmed and even more rarely recorded. This 2009 Hyperion disc with Ronald Corp leading the New London Orchestra is especially welcome since it contains four of her works, two of them premiere recordings. Three of the pieces here, including the premieres, are scored for string orchestra -- the 1935 Sinfonietta, the 1946 Symphony, and the 1948 Concerto -- while the fourth describes its scoring with its title: Music for strings, trumpets, and percussion (1958). Though their essentially tonal harmonic language grows more austere over time, all four works are fundamentally abstract music filled with the overwhelming need to communicate. Bacewicz's themes are always urgently expressive, and her harmonies are always purposefully moving... Read Less

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