While the prolific Grazyna Bacewicz composed several symphonies, concertos, ballets, and even film scores, most commercially available CDs are devoted to her chamber works; of these, the pieces for violin and piano have a special significance. As a virtuoso violinist and composer for the instrument, Bacewicz paid close attention to advanced string techniques fostered by such composers as Bartók and Stravinsky; yet she also kept her passionate neo-Romantic expressions within neo-Classical parameters, the dominant practice of ...
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While the prolific Grazyna Bacewicz composed several symphonies, concertos, ballets, and even film scores, most commercially available CDs are devoted to her chamber works; of these, the pieces for violin and piano have a special significance. As a virtuoso violinist and composer for the instrument, Bacewicz paid close attention to advanced string techniques fostered by such composers as Bartók and Stravinsky; yet she also kept her passionate neo-Romantic expressions within neo-Classical parameters, the dominant practice of the mid-twentieth century. The Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano (1949), the Partita (1955), and the Sonata da camera (also called Sonata No. 1, 1945) are the most substantial pieces of this program; they are balanced by a selection of shorter pieces, often of a Polish folk flavor: the Concertino (1945), Kaprys and Melodia (Capriccio and Melody, both 1946), Taniec mazowiecki (Mazovian Dance) and Oberek (1951), and Kolysanka (Lullaby, 1952) are concise character pieces that gave...
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