The World of Grażyna Bacewicz

Grażyna Bacewicz

The intrepid folks at Bard Music West have just announced the details of their upcoming weekend of concerts, The World of Grażyna Bacewicz, which will focus on the great Polish composer, her contemporaries, and her successors. The programming is fantastic, to the point that maybe I will swap my Figaro ticket.

October 18 and 19, 2019
Noe Valley Ministry
1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco

Single tickets $20-$50. Ticket packages also available. www.bardmusicwest.org/tickets

Friday, October 18, 7:30pm 
1: A Rising Star

Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 1
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet 
Nadia Boulanger: Vers la vie nouvelle (Toward the new life)
Karol Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op. 50 (selections)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Nocturne in B-flat Major 
Claude Debussy: Études for Piano (selections)
Claudio Monteverdi: Nine Madrigals (selections)
Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1 

Saturday, October 19, 4pm 
2: From War to Warsaw Autumn

Bacewicz: Polish Capriccio 
Mélanie Clapiès: String Trio world premiere of commissioned work
Tadeusz Baird: Suita Liryczna (Lyric Suite) (Julian Tuwim) (selections)
Andrzej Panufnik: Warszawskie dzieci (Children of Warsaw) 
Panufnik: Hommage à Chopin – Five Vocalises for Soprano and Piano (selections)
Grażyna Bacewicz: selected songs for soprano and piano 
Bacewicz: Partita for violin and piano 
Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2 
Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4

Saturday, October 19, 8pm 
3: Evolution and Persistence – Her Legacy

Witold Lutosławski: Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano (selections)
Agata Zubel: Cadenza for solo violin
Alban Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 
Marta Ptaszyńska: Katarynka for glockenspiel
Witold Lutosławski (“Derwid”): “I don’t expect anyone today” for soprano and piano (interpretation inspired by Agata Zubel’s improvisation)
Grażyna Bacewicz: Quartet for Four Cellos
Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 7 
Hanna Kulenty: Van for Piano Four Hands
Lidia Zielinska: Expandata for Snare Drum and Tape 
Bacewicz: Four Caprices for Violin (arranged for viola)