This album marks the second release by Polish-born violinist Joanna Kurkowicz to be devoted to the concertos of Grazyna Bacewicz, a violinist/composer who survived World War II and Stalinism with her artistic vision intact. Not only that, she adapted the violin concerto, not a form in great favor in the 20th century, to waves of successive influences. As Eastern Europe emerges as the crucible where musicians tried to build a durable culture out of the 20th century's various musical and political "isms," Bacewicz's music is ...
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This album marks the second release by Polish-born violinist Joanna Kurkowicz to be devoted to the concertos of Grazyna Bacewicz, a violinist/composer who survived World War II and Stalinism with her artistic vision intact. Not only that, she adapted the violin concerto, not a form in great favor in the 20th century, to waves of successive influences. As Eastern Europe emerges as the crucible where musicians tried to build a durable culture out of the 20th century's various musical and political "isms," Bacewicz's music is well worth keeping an eye on. The fluent violin writing here would please any general symphony-concert audience, and its considerable technical challenges pose no problems for Kurkowicz, and she is ably backed in the opening movements' complex solo-orchestra interplay by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz. Almost alone, Bacewicz can be said to have reconciled the figure of the virtuoso-composer (her violin music was mostly written for her own use) with modern...
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