Bacewicz received an international education thanks to an Ignacy Paderewski Scholarship, allowing her to study composition with Nadia Boulanger and violin with André Touret and Carl Flesch in Paris.
Composer Biography
Grażyna Bacewicz, born in 1909 in Łódź, Poland, had a Polish mother and a Lithuanian father, who was a passionate patriot and music teacher.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in 24-bit / 96 kHz, a technology that offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings, aiming for a better sound reproduction.
Historical Context
Bacewicz survived the 1939 bombardments of Warsaw by chance, experiencing a premonition that led her family to flee moments before their location was destroyed by Wehrmacht bombers.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bacewicz believed that an artist working with sounds has an 'apparatus' in their head, a receiver of 'extraterrestrial waves' absorbed in a state of great tension, which she described as physics rather than mysticism.
Performer Biography
Sakari Oramo, the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, is also an accomplished violinist who previously served as leader of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Composer Biography
Despite her success as a soloist, Bacewicz joined the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra as its leader at the invitation of Grzegorz Fitelberg, a composer and conductor, to gain orchestral experience for her compositional work.
