Composer: Grażyna Bacewicz
Performer: Peter Jablonski
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ondine
Release: 2022
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
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01. Krakowiak koncertowy
10 Concert Etudes for Piano
02. No. 1, Allegro non troppo
03. No. 2, Vivace
04. No. 3, Allegretto
05. No. 4, —
06. No. 5, Andante
07. No. 6, —
08. No. 7, Giocoso
09. No. 8, —
10. No. 9, Presto
11. No. 10, Allegro
2 Etudes in Double Notes
12. No. 1, Moderato
13. No. 2, Vivace
Piano Sonata No. 1
14. I. Moderato
15. II. Andante sostenuto
16. III. Scherzo. Molto allegro
17. IV. Finale. Molto allegro
Piano Sonata No. 2
18. I. Maestoso – Agitato
19. II. Largo
20. III. Toccata. Vivo
This album is pianist Peter Jablonski’s third solo album for the Ondine label. With this album Jablonski represents Grażyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and piano sonatas which are hardly known outside of her native Poland.
In recent years the music of Grażyna Bacewicz has been enjoying an ever-increasing popularity in concert hall programmes. Bacewicz was a major Polish composer and a versatile musician: a child prodigy violinist, she was also an accomplished pianist. As a composer, she is known for her inventive, complex, and original musical language, and particularly many of her works for violin are well known. Bacewicz studied first at the Warsaw Conservatory and briefly continued her studies in Paris before returning back home. In 1934, she received a position of concertmaster at the Polish Radio Orchestra. This position proved invaluable to her as a composer, giving her insights into each instrument’s possibilities and orchestral composition. Her music displays many characteristic traits of the twentieth-century that are to be heard in the writings of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Lutosławski, among others.
Jablonski’s piano album covers only eight short years during which the works presented here were composed and brings together, for the first time, both piano sonatas, and both sets of etudes. Sonata No. 1 for solo piano was composed in 1949 but waited over seventy years until Peter Jablonski edited it for PWM for publication.
This album was co-organised together with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural programme marking the centenary of Poland’s regained independence. Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme Niepodlegla 2017–2022.