Grażyna Bacewicz: Complete Orchestral Works Vol. 2

Featuring

Łukasz Borowicz
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Grażyna Bacewicz

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Composer Biography

Grażyna Bacewicz, the composer, was born in Łódź, a city with diverse Polish, Jewish, German, and Russian communities, and her mother was Polish while her father was Lithuanian.

Historical Context

After World War II, communist authorities in Poland imposed 'socialist realism' on artists, requiring traditional, simplified art that referenced native folklore.

Album & Artwork

This album is the second volume in the first-ever recording series of Grażyna Bacewicz's complete symphonic works.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Grażyna Bacewicz's later style, called 'sonorism', focused on sound and instrumental tone color, as exemplified by her work Musica sinfonica in tre movimenti.

Performer Biography

Łukasz Borowicz, the conductor, is Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Poznań Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of the Cracow Philharmonic.

Composer Biography

Grażyna Bacewicz studied violin and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory and then honed her technique in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, joining a group of Neoclassical composers.

Composer Biography

Grażyna Bacewicz was a successful violinist and pianist who balanced her virtuoso performing career with her compositional ambitions, a duality that became her 'trademark'.