NOSPR Chamber Music / Configurations of Strings - NOSPR

Grażyna Bacewicz’s Quartettofor Four Violins, conceived as a pedagogical work, dates from 1949, a difficult year for Polish music, when the aesthetics of Socialist Realism were proclaimed as the official artistic doctrine of the Stalinist state. Yet Quartetto is a brilliant study in violin sonority and ensemble precision – pure formalism! Written two years later, the String Quartet No. 4 represents the triumph of integrating folk melodies into a neoclassical idiom. The work brought Bacewicz international acclaim and consolidated her position as one of Poland's leading composers.

Brahms’ String Quintet No. 2 represents the pinnacle of his chamber music output. He originally intended it to be his farewell to composition. Here, as if through a magnifying glass, all the defining features of Brahms’ chamber music are brought into focus, although the breadth of its outer movements has given rise to the theory that they originated as sketches for an unwritten Fifth Symphony.

Adam Suprynowicz

Concert duration: approximately 80 minutes

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