Bacewicz, Prokofiev & Pärt: Works for Violin & Piano
9/16/2022, 9 Tracks, 59:52
Featuring
Sulamita Ślubowska
Michał Francuz
Grażyna Bacewicz
Sergei Prokofiev
Arvo Pärt
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Compositional Technique
Arvo Pärt's Fratres (Latin for 'brothers') is a polyversional composition, meaning its instrumentation is not fixed; Pärt created seventeen versions for various ensembles between 1977 and 2010.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at the Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, in June 2021.
Performer Biography
Sulamita Ślubowska, the violinist on this album, began playing at age six and is an assistant professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
Compositional Technique
The piano part in Arvo Pärt's Fratres features eight gradually descending chord sequences, separated by a gong-like motif, with a mathematically precise, fractal-like structure.
Compositional Technique
Grażyna Bacewicz's Sonata No. 4, while neoclassical, departs from Parisian models and incorporates Central European traditions with Hungarian, Polish, and German elements.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Prokofiev instructed the figurations at the end of his Sonata No. 1 to sound 'like a gust of wind at a cemetery'.
Composition History
Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, Op. 80, composed between 1938 and 1946, reflects the tragic epoch in which it was created.
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