| All Artists: New London Orchestra Title: Bacewicz: Music for String Orchestra Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Hyperion Original Release Date: 1/1/2009 Re-Release Date: 11/10/2009 Album Type: Import Genre: Classical Styles: Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830) Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 034571177830 |
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 | New London Orchestra Bacewicz: Music for String Orchestra Genre: Classical This disc featuring 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 n... more » |
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Product Description This disc featuring 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. It contains 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 1930's. Her most striking music is that which draws on her experience of the neoclassicism of inter-war France. Bacewicz emphasizes neoclassicism's vitality and clarity while at the same time giving it a combination of delicacy and muscularity which is all her own. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsLittle known but excellent Polish composer William J. Coburn | Basking Ridge, NJ USA | 04/08/2010 (5 out of 5 stars) "I first heard a piece of Grazyna Bacewicz's music at Avery Fisher Hall back in the '70's. It was the first piece on this recording, the Concerto for String Orchestra, and I was impressed. The last of the four compositions on this CD is the Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion. It may be the best thing she ever wrote. Bacewicz has two powerful influences in her music, Bartok and Stravinsky, specifically Stravinsky's neoclassicism. Influences can be very beneficial. They can help give a composer structure and a sure sense of what works and what does not. For example, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, the best of the Turkish composers, became a much greater composer after having worked with Bartok in collecting folk music. Similarly, Bacewicz developed from the two older composers a feeling for writing strong rhythmic and melodic ideas. She is the best Polish composer after Szymanowski and before Lutoslawski."
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