Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Lutosławski Quartet
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Chamber Finalist
Bacewicz's seven string quartets stand tall in the repertoire of 20th-century chamber music, worthy of comparison with works by more famous composers…Bacewicz wrote for strings with complete...
Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Lutosławski Quartet
Purchase product
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Chamber Finalist
Bacewicz's seven string quartets stand tall in the repertoire of 20th-century chamber music, worthy of comparison with works by more famous composers…Bacewicz wrote for strings with complete...
About
Musicologist Adrian Thomas considered Grażyna Bacewicz’s string quartets “unrivalled in 20th-century Polish music and… one of the century’s most significant contributions to the genre”. Her folk-music infused First Quartet dates from student days at the Paris Conservatoire, while exceptional polyphonic skill, intense emotion and playful, high spirits characterize the Third Quartet. Both the Sixth and Seventh Quartets unite tradition with a strikingly effective and highly personal exploration of progressive contemporary techniques. As Lutosławski observed, in the “rapidly changing artistic currents” of the times, “it was [Bacewicz’s] music which helped create that atmosphere”.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
November 2015
Bacewicz's seven string quartets stand tall in the repertoire of 20th-century chamber music, worthy of comparison with works by more famous composers…Bacewicz wrote for strings with complete mastery, and in the first of their two volumes devoted to her quartets, the young players of the Lutosławski Quartet relish all the possibilities of these works. Superbly recorded, the Lutosławskis project with presence and warmth.
6th August 2015
Especially in the earlier works here, the First and Third Quartets, she uses folk music and dance rhythms, inevitably bringing Bartók to mind...The Lutosławski Quartet give wholehearted, stylish performances. This is the first of their two CDs covering Bacewicz’s seven quartets. Bring on the next …
