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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.

1 hour

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Fri 29 May 2015 19:00

Music Played

  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Pensieri Notturni

    Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Witold Rowicki.
    • Olympia: OCD 311.
    • Olympia.
    • 4.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Quintet No. 2 For Piano And Strings [1965]

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Ryszard Groblewski. Performer: Rafa艂 Kwiatkowski. Performer: Agata Szymczewska. Performer: Kaja Danczowska.
    • DG: 477 8332.
    • DG.
    • 5.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Concerto No. 7 For Violin And Orchestra

    Performer: Joanna Kurkowicz. Conductor: 艁ukasz Borowicz. Orchestra: Polish R S O..
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-10533.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Divertimento For String Orchestra

    Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Witold Rowicki.
    • Olympia: OCD 311.
    • Olympia.
    • 1.

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