Silesian Quartet - Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.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), Andrxe9 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.

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II. Tema. Andante Tranquillo - Variazione I. Variazione II. Poco Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Variazione III. Modera

II. Scherzo (Fuga). Giocoso - Allegretto - Tempo I - Poco Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Tempo II (Meno Mosso) - Tempo

III. Vivo - Poco Meno, Ma Non Troppo - Tempo I

III. Corale. Largo - Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Poco Meno Mosso - Tempo I

I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo

IV. Variazioni. Allegro - Energico - Giocoso - Andante - Vivace

II. Andante

I. Andante - Vivo - (Meno) - Allegro - Vivo - (Allegro) - Andante

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I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo

III. Grave

II. Andante

IV.( ) - Tempo Comodo (Poco Meno Mosso) - Tempo I - (Poco Meno Mosso) - Tempo I (Poco Grandioso) -

III. Vivo

I. Allegro - Poco Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Meno Mosso - Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Grandioso

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II. Grave - Poco Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Meno Mosso - Grandioso

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III. Con Vivezza - Poco Meno Mosso - Pixc3xb9 Mosso - Tempo I - Meno Mosso - Meno Mosso - Molto Meno Mos

III. Allegro Giocoso - Poco Meno - Tempo I - Meno Mosso - Tempo I - Poco Meno Mosso - Tempo I - Pixc3xb9

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