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NEWSJuly 03 - Guardian Bacewicz: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 7, etc. (Chandos) A generation younger than Szymanowski and half a generation older than Lutosawski and Panufnik, Grazyna Bacewicz is a revered figure in Polish music. The orchestral heart of her output as a composer is the seven concertos she wrote for her own instrument, the violin, and as this superbly played selection from them shows, they are wonderfully idiomatic works, colourfully scored and always interesting formally. The sequence runs in reverse chronological order on the disc; it begins with the seventh and last of the concertos, completed in 1965, four years before her death. By then Bacewicz had absorbed what she required from all the trends of postwar European music and synthesised it into an attractive idiom of her own, supple and keenly expressive. The third and first concertos reveal where Bacewicz had come from - late Bartók in the case of No 3 from 1948, late Romanticism shading into expressionism in the single-movement No 1 of 1937. It's an interesting collection, and Joanna Kurkowicz is a keenly alert soloist in all three works. Classical music and operaguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsRead this article in its entirety on Guardian... See also ...  Ads |
