SACD, Bacewicz (composer)
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Special offer. Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
RecommendedSymphony No. 2 - Piano Concerto - Concerto For Large Symphony Orchestra
Peter Donohoe (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Grażyna Bacewicz is a composer with purpose and drive...That's the impression left, as so often with her works, by the music on this latest album, performed with equal sense of mission by the... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th July 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Grazyna Bacewicz: Orchestral Works Vol. 1
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
These are two symphonies that show off the Polish composer at the height of her orchestral powers: in the early 1950s, when her writing was resolutely abstract, sombre at heart, serious in purpose... —
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Grażyna Bacewicz; Eugène Ysaÿe; George Enescu: Music For Strings
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
At its centre [the Bacewicz] is a searing slow movement, rich and haunting, but the rest of the work crackles with energy, and the Sinfonia of London (at times divided into 17 parts) under John... —
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Breaking Waves
Grace Williams - Grażyna Bacewicz - Johanna Müller-Hermann
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Malin Broman
these immediate, intense performances, directed by leader Malin Broman, grip from start to finish. —
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Dalene and Hadland make an excellent duo – equal partners who bounce ideas off one another with oodles of vitality. —
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a vibrant and wonderfully focused performance… The embraces at the end suggested that for the performers, too, it had been equally special. —
