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Composer: Grażyna Bacewicz
Ewa Kupiec, piano
Date: 2000
Label: Hänssler Classic
- (01) Sonata No. 2
- (04) Scherzo. Vivace
- (05) Rondino
- (06) Sonatina
- (09) Children's Suite
- (17) Drei Burlesken
- (20) 2 Etüden
- (22) Kleines Triptychon
- (25) 10 Etüden
Ewa Kupiec, piano
Date: 2000
Label: Hänssler Classic
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Fine performances of sometimes charming works by a Polish neoClassical composer
Although Grove lists several other pieces‚ the booklet claims that this disc includes all Grazyna Bacewicz’s music for solo piano‚ adding that ‘her sister has not authorised publication of the remaining piano works’. What we have here suggests that Bacewicz concentrated what one might call her neoClassical ‘toccata style’ into her keyboard works. She was a fine pianist‚ playing not only her own music in public‚ but she was better known as an exceptional solo violinist; indeed she was so busy with her (dual) solo career that she did not devote herself to fulltime composition until her midforties. Real lyricism‚ what one might call her ‘violin manner’‚ is in rather short supply here: the fine singing melody of the Sonata’s slow movement‚ the very simple‚ almost childlike ‘Mélodie’ of the Sonatina and no more than a couple of the Etudes.
Her ‘toccata manner’ often has real character‚ mark you: the Sonata’s first movement shows that lyricism and elegance can exist within it‚ and although some of the Etudes sound as though they were designed to develop steely‚ agile fingers and strong wrists‚ their textures are inventive enough for most of them to stand up as concert pieces. The early Children’s Suite‚ eight slight but fresh and tuneful miniatures‚ has much charm.
The average length of the pieces on this disc‚ including the Sonata and Sonatina movements‚ is not much over two minutes and they are best not listened to at a sitting. Best of all would be to alternate them with the longer spans and more lyrical expression of Bacewicz’s later chamber music‚ of which a fair amount is now available on disc. Ewa Kupiec plays admirably‚ searching out the essence of these pithy but not often emotionally expansive pieces‚ and she is cleanly recorded.
-- Gramophone
Although Grove lists several other pieces‚ the booklet claims that this disc includes all Grazyna Bacewicz’s music for solo piano‚ adding that ‘her sister has not authorised publication of the remaining piano works’. What we have here suggests that Bacewicz concentrated what one might call her neoClassical ‘toccata style’ into her keyboard works. She was a fine pianist‚ playing not only her own music in public‚ but she was better known as an exceptional solo violinist; indeed she was so busy with her (dual) solo career that she did not devote herself to fulltime composition until her midforties. Real lyricism‚ what one might call her ‘violin manner’‚ is in rather short supply here: the fine singing melody of the Sonata’s slow movement‚ the very simple‚ almost childlike ‘Mélodie’ of the Sonatina and no more than a couple of the Etudes.
Her ‘toccata manner’ often has real character‚ mark you: the Sonata’s first movement shows that lyricism and elegance can exist within it‚ and although some of the Etudes sound as though they were designed to develop steely‚ agile fingers and strong wrists‚ their textures are inventive enough for most of them to stand up as concert pieces. The early Children’s Suite‚ eight slight but fresh and tuneful miniatures‚ has much charm.
The average length of the pieces on this disc‚ including the Sonata and Sonatina movements‚ is not much over two minutes and they are best not listened to at a sitting. Best of all would be to alternate them with the longer spans and more lyrical expression of Bacewicz’s later chamber music‚ of which a fair amount is now available on disc. Ewa Kupiec plays admirably‚ searching out the essence of these pithy but not often emotionally expansive pieces‚ and she is cleanly recorded.
-- Gramophone
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Grażyna Bacewicz (5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition after Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century. Bacewicz studied with teachers such as Nadia Boulanger and Carl Flesch, among others. After completing her studies, Bacewicz took part in numerous events as a soloist, composer, and jury member. Many of her compositions feature the violin. Among them are 7 violin concertos, 5 sonatas for violin with piano, 3 for violin solo and 4 numbered symphonies.
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Ewa Kupiec (born 2 November 1964 in Duszniki-Zdrój, Poland) is a classical pianist. Kupiec studied music in Katowice, at Warsaw's Chopin Academy, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 1992, she won the ARD Music Competition for Duo Piano:Cello. Kupiec has performed around the globe, not only at the most important music festivals but also with several national orchestras. Since 2011, she has been professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in Hanover, Germany. In 2018 she has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts.
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