The missing voice in Polish music is female
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The missing voice in modern Polish music is female. At the time of her early death, aged 59, in 1969, two contemporaries of Grazyna Bacewicz, Lutoslawski and Penderecki, were world famous and two others, Panufnik and Gorecki, were laying down tracks for the future. Poland punched well above its weight on the musical map, yet Bacewicz, alive or after, was barely heard….
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This is a singularly clever album cover, crossing images of the composer and the soloist.
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