Grazyna Bacewicz was a composer in Poland in the mid-20th century. Even during the Second World War, she was part of an underground concert scene. We'll hear a piece she wrote in Warsaw in the middle of 1943 on this episode of Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Edward Elgar: Chanson de Nuit, Op. 15, No. 1
English Sinfonia | Sir Charles Groves, conductor
Album: English Sinfonia -- Sir Charles Groves
MCA 25885
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: Movement 4 Allegro
Gabriel Martins, cello | Sphinx Symphony Orchestra | Roderick Cox, conductor
Sphinx Organization, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, MI
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano in E-flat major, Op. 16
Stephen Taylor, oboe | Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet | Peter Kolkay, bassoon | Radovan Vlatkovic, horn | Wu Qian, piano
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY
Victoria Kelly: Goodnight Kiwi
Juho Pohjonen, piano
Bridgehampton Chamber Music, Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, NY
Hour 2
Florence Beatrice Price: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint Movement 1 Calvary
Apollo Chamber Players
Album: Apollo Chamber Players: Blurred Boundaries
Navona 6038
Philip Glass: Etude No. 6
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Aspen Music Festival and School | Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CA
Bohuslav Martinu: Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet, and Piano
Carolina Eyck, theremin | Elizabeth Priestly Siffert, oboe | Alejandro Barranon, piano
Apollo Chamber Players, Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH), Houston, TX
Grazyna Bacewicz: Uwertura
Basel Sinfonietta | Jessica Horsley, conductor
Casino, Bern, Switzerland
Robert Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 132
David Shifrin, clarinet | Paul Neubauer, viola | Gloria Chien, piano
String Theory at the Hunter, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
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