095115190425

Bacewicz:string Quartets

Silesian Quartet

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CHAN10904(2)

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Release Date:  30 June 2016

Label:  Chandos

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  095115190425

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Bacewicz

  • Description

    For their very first recording on Chandos, the multi-award winning Silesian Quartet presents the complete string quartets by Gra?yna Bacewicz. These lesser-known chamber music treasures by the Polish composer are neatly packaged in a slimline jewel case: two discs here offered for the price of one. The life of Bacewicz, like that of better-known colleagues such as Witold Lutos?awski and Andrzej Panufnik, was conditioned by the political and military events of her time. Her works reflected not only these traumas but also the shifting stylistic currents of twentieth-century music. Her seven string quartets, written between 1938 and 1965, are a telling barometer of these changes. They also stand as a timeline of her resolute compositional outlook and as a testament to her profound understanding of string instruments. String Quartet No. 1 comes after her studies in Paris in 1932 - 35 with Nadia Boulanger (composition), André Touret, and Carl Flesch (both violin), No. 2 was written in Warsaw during World War II, Nos 3, 4, and 5 date from the post-war decade, a time of socialist-realist cultural upheavals, while Nos 6 and 7 were composed during the avant-garde musical explosion that thrust Polish music onto the world stage in the late 1950s.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. I. Moderato - Più Mosso - Meno Mosso, Ma Non Troppo -Tempo II - Allegro - Meno Mosso - Tempo II - T
      • 2. II. Tema. Andante Tranquillo - Variazione I. Variazione II. Poco Più Mosso - Variazione III. Modera
      • 3. III. Vivo - Poco Meno, Ma Non Troppo - Tempo I
      • 4. I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
      • 5. II. Andante
      • 6. Tango No. 3. Allegro
      • 7. I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
      • 8. II. Andante
      • 9. III. Vivo
      • 10. I. Andante -( ) - Andante - Allegro Moderato - Allegro Energico - Moderato - (Poco Più) - Poco Men
      • 11. II. Andante -( ) - Tempo I
      • 12. III. Allegro Giocoso - Poco Meno - Tempo I - Meno Mosso - Tempo I - Poco Meno Mosso - Tempo I - Più

      Disc 2

      • 1. I. Moderato -( ) - Tempo I -( ) - Tempo I -( ) - Tempo I
      • 2. II. Scherzo (Fuga). Giocoso - Allegretto - Tempo I - Poco Più Mosso - Tempo II (Meno Mosso) - Tempo
      • 3. III. Corale. Largo - Più Mosso - Poco Meno Mosso - Tempo I
      • 4. IV. Variazioni. Allegro - Energico - Giocoso - Andante - Vivace
      • 5. I. Andante - Vivo - (Meno) - Allegro - Vivo - (Allegro) - Andante
      • 6. II. Vivace -( ) - Tempo I
      • 7. III. Grave
      • 8. IV.( ) - Tempo Comodo (Poco Meno Mosso) - Tempo I - (Poco Meno Mosso) - Tempo I (Poco Grandioso) -
      • 9. I. Allegro - Poco Più Mosso - Più Mosso - Meno Mosso - Più Mosso - Grandioso
      • 10. II. Grave - Poco Più Mosso - Meno Mosso - Grandioso
      • 11. III. Con Vivezza - Poco Meno Mosso - Più Mosso - Tempo I - Meno Mosso - Meno Mosso - Molto Meno Mos