Woodworm Don't Like Your Music
Donald Macleod and Polish music expert Adrian Thomas discuss the final years in the life and music of composer Grazyna Bacewicz, including the shifting textures and colours of Pensieri Notturni, and the ballet Desire, which was unfinished at the time of her death, based on a play by Pablo Picasso.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Pensieri Notturni
Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Witold Rowicki.- Olympia: OCD 311.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Quintet No. 2 For Piano And Strings [1965]
Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Ryszard Groblewski. Performer: Rafał Kwiatkowski. Performer: Agata Szymczewska. Performer: Kaja Danczowska.- DG: 477 8332.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Concerto No. 7 For Violin And Orchestra
Performer: Joanna Kurkowicz. Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz. Orchestra: Polish R S O..- CHANDOS : CHAN-10533.
- CHANDOS.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Divertimento For String Orchestra
Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Witold Rowicki.- Olympia: OCD 311.
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