Opening the Modernist Floodgates
Donald Macleod and Polish music expert Adrian Thomas focus on the effect on Bacewicz of cultural changes in Poland following Stalin's death in 1953.
Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 had an almost immediate liberalising effect on Polish culture. The first Warsaw Autumn festival that followed opened the modernist floodgates, introducing to Polish audiences a raft of previously proscribed composers. Donald Macleod is joined by Polish music expert Adrian Thomas to explore this period in the life and music of Grazyna Bacewicz.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Quartet No. 4 For Strings
Performer: Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet.- TRO: CD 4.
- TRO.
- 1.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Partita For Violin And Piano
Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Performer: Ian Fountain.- Chandos: 10476.
- Chandos.
- 13.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Concert Etudes (Studies) For Piano - extract
Performer: Ewa Kupiec.- Hanssler: CD 93.034.
- Hanssler.
- 25.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Music For Strings, Trumpets And Percussion
Conductor: Ronald Corp. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra.- Hyperion: CDA 67783.
- Hyperion.
- 11.
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- Thu 28 May 201512:00BBC Radio 3
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