Violin
SKU:
BT.PWM7985010
Composed by Grazyna
Bacewicz. Classical. Book
Only. 18 pages. Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
#PWM7985010. Published by
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne (BT.PWM7985010).
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.].