Bacewicz - Chamber Works Chamber Chandos

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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ

Quintet No.1 (1952) *

23:00

for Piano and String Quartet

Moderato molto espressivo - Allegro - Poco meno mosso -

7:04

Presto - Poco meno mosso - Tempo I

4:11

III

Grave - Meno mosso - Tempo I

6:32

Con passione - [ ] - Tempo I - [ ] - Tempo I - Grandioso

5:01

Quintet No.2 (1965) *

17:35

for Piano and String Quartet

Kwintetowi Warszawskiemu

Moderato - Più mosso - Allegro - Meno mosso - Più mosso -

6:35

Larghetto - Grandioso - Sostenuto - Tempo I

5:58

III

Allegro giocoso - Poco meno mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso - Lo stesso tempo

4:55

Solo: Wojciech Switala piano

Quartet (1949) †

9:53

for Four Violins

Studentom Konserwatorium poswiecam

Allegretto - Allegro giocoso - Poco meno - Poco meno - Tempo II

3:46

Andante tranquillo

3:43

10.

III

Molto allegro

2:16

Szymon Krzeszowiec violin I

Malgorzata Wasiucionek violin II

Arkadiusz Kubica violin III

Kyzysztof Lason violin IV

Quartet (1963) ‡

12.28

for Four Cellos

11.

Narrazione. dotted crotchet = 42 - Poco più mosso - Poco meno mosso -

6:41

12.

Riflessioni. crotchet = 50 - Più mosso - Poco meno mosso -

5:43

Chamber: Polish Cello Quartet

Tomasz Daroch cello

Wojciech Fudala cello

Krzysztof Karpeta cello

Adam Krzeszowiec cello

Total time: 63:30

Chamber: Silesian Quartet

Szymon Krzeszowiec violin I

Arkadiusz Kubica violin II

Lukasz Syrnicki viola

Piotr Janosik cello

7-12 September 2010 (Piano Quintets) and 26 & 27 September 2017 (other works)

Nomination for BBC Music magazine Chamber Award 2019

BBC Music magazine – February 2019

“… Chandos captures all these works with a dynamic, resonant recording made in the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music. (Listen to the brilliant piano and the surging strings in the Presto and finale of Quintet 1). This is an important, exciting release."

Jack Sullivan – American Record Guide – September/October 2018

“…Another Bacewicz winner.” – Jonathan Woolf – May 2018

“…These are gripping and exhilarating performances, which I cannot fault in any way. The Chandos engineers have done a stirling job in capturing the detail of each of the instruments. This is facilitated by the generous acoustic of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music concert hall in Katowice. Adrian Thomas’ scholarly notes are an added bonus.” – Stephen Greenbank – 18 July 2018

Music-Web-International.com

“… The performances of all four works are very fine. Tempos in the two Quintets fall in with the main consensus, Wojciech Switala is a sensitive pianist and the string players confirm the good impression they created in Bacewicz’s complete Quartets. The four-violin piece could hardly be better played, and the performance by the Polish Cello Quartet, who have been together since 2011, is absolutely spiffing. Although the Quintets have taken more than seven years to reach us – goodness knows why – they are well recorded, as are the two shorter works…” *****

Tully Potter – ClassicalSource.com – 14 June 2018

Diapason d’Or

Technique: 4/5

“… a masterpiece”

Nicolas Derny – Diapason magazine (France) – June 2018

**** Excellent Album

Antoine Mignon – Classica magazine (France) – June 2018

“Grazyna Bacewicz is one of the foremost female composers of the last century. Her piano quintets and the two quartets, one for violins, the other for cellos only, belong to the important part of her chamber music. The Polish musicians who made this recording, play the music with dedication and natural ability, thus giving a highly persuasive account of the entire program. “ ****

Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.lu – 12 June 2018

Chamber Choice

Performance ***** Recording *****

“… Bacewicz’s two piano quintets are works of real originality …”

Helen Wallace – BBC Music magazine – July 2018

“... this is the potent, instantly communicative music of a larger-than-life artistic personality... Bacewicz can generate irresistible symphonic 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...”

Richard Bratby – Gramophone magazine – June 2018

Classical Album of the Week

“… She [Bacewicz] wrote for strings and piano as a singer might write for their own voice … the energised playing from all the musicians involved is consistently polished and engaging.” ****

Erica Jeal – The Guardian – 27 April 2018

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