Sidste nat med bandet
Peter Belli
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Reviews (4)
MusicWeb international
2018 May
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Jonathan Woolf
2018 May
"The dedication Chandos has shown to the music of Grażyna Bacewicz is something one might even have expected from a Polish label ... Bacewicz's radicalism was always accompanied by playfulness and ardour. Which one can extend to these superfine performances from the Silesians and their friends ... Adrian Thomas' notes are wholly admirable and the recording highly sympathetic. Another Bacewicz winner".
Presto classical
d. 30. Apr. 2018
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Katherine Cooper
d. 30. Apr. 2018
"Editor's choices - April 2018: I discovered the distinctive voice of this female Polish composer through the Silesian Quartet's award-winning recording of her string quartets in 2016, and this follow-up album proves that it was no one-hit wonder: If the earliest of the two piano quintets (written in 1952) has a distinct whiff of Shostakovich about it, the second (from 1965) ventures into far more experimental territory, whilst the 1950 Quartet for Four Violins is shot through with echoes of Ravel's String Quartet".
BBC music magazine
2018 July
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Helen Wallace (musikanmelder)
2018 July
"Chamber choice: For those invigorated by the Silesian Quartet's complete quartet set, here's an exciting new addition: two piano quintets. They are works of real substance and originality. The First (1952) is an assured achievement with a powerful identity ... her Second Quintet is confrontational and virtuosic. The Silesians tap into its nervous energy ... Look out for more Bacewicz: her time has come".
The gramophone
2018 June
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Richard Bratby
2018 June
"A huge personality. Bacewicz can generate momentum in the space of a four-minute movement and integrates eloquent bleakness with some of the sharpest, most light-footed musical wit since Haydn ... This disc deserves to make a lot of converts".
