In her four-movement Sonata Bacewicz obviously refers to the Baroque music the virtuoso trend of the music for strings of that epoch as proven by the kind of narrative as well as Bach-like ostinatos and figurations textural devices such as lyrical double stops or bourdons with open strings a based-on-fifths-plan of repetitions in the second movement and the like. (...) All this makes the Sonata an original commentary on a composition on which it feeds and to which it owes a great deal (i.e. a cycle of the Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin by J. S. Bach) depriving the music of Arcadian illusions while preserving its musicianly dash instead an indisputable violin quality of sound and energy which is exclusively the energy of the material without any extramusical references. [M. G siorowska op. cit.]In her four-movement Sonata Bacewicz obviously refers to the Baroque music the virtuoso trend of the music for strings of that epoch as proven by the kind of narrative as well as Bach-like ostinatos and figurations textural devices such as lyrical double stops or bourdons with open strings a based-on-fifths-plan of repetitions in the second movement and the like. (...) All this makes the Sonata an original commentary on a composition on which it feeds and to which it owes a great deal (i.e. a cycle of the Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin by J. S. Bach) depriving the music of Arcadian illusions while preserving its musicianly dash instead an indisputable violin quality of sound and energy which is exclusively the energy of the material without any extramusical references. [M. G siorowska op. cit.]

One of the best-known violin compositions by Gra yna Bacewicz. The work presents a number of technical problems: passages of semi-quavers playing in high positions on the G string and arpeggiated double- and triple-stopped chords.

Trost is a work by Hauschka for String Quartet first performed on 23rd March 2010 at the Swedish American Hall San Francisco by the Magik Magik Orchestra. This is the Full Score.

Homeless is a work by Hauschka for String Quartet written for the Alma Quartet Amsterdam. This is the full score.