NOSPR chamber settings/String configurations

Grażyna Bacewicz's quartet for four violins, a pedagogical piece, comes from 1949, a difficult year for Polish music, in which the socialist aesthetics prevailing in the Stalinist state were proclaimed. Meanwhile, the Quartetto is a superb study of violin harmony and ensemble precision — pure formalism! Formed two years later, the Fourth String Quartet is a triumph of the strategy of incorporating folk melodies into the neoclassical style. The work brought Bacewicz worldwide fame and strengthened her position as the leading Polish composer.

String Quintet II marks the culmination of Johannes Brahms's chamber work, who originally planned to say goodbye to this piece with composing. As in a lens, all the characteristic features of his chamber music are concentrated here, although the breadth of the extreme parts suggests that they were created as sketches for the unwritten Fifth Symphony.

Adam Suprynovich

This concert may be part of the “My Pass” offer. Check the details and compose “My Pass” at will, choosing from concerts of different series in the chamber and concert hall — more information.

Performers: Beata Ogryzek — violin; Katarzyna Jawor — violin; Dorota Cieślińska — violin; Aleksander Daszkiewicz — violin; Dawid Jadamus — viola; Roksana Krechowiecka — viola; Alicja Szydłowska-Esmund — cello

Program: Grażyna Bacewicz — Quartetto for four violins; Grażyna Bacewicz — 4th String Quartet; Johannes Brahms — 2nd String Quintet Op. 111