2015-05-12

In two weeks’ time, Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-69) will be BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week. Five programmes, each lasting an hour, will be broadcast 25-29 May, at 12 noon and again at 18.30.

Here’s the day-by-day list of works that have been selected:

Monday 25 May
• Sonatina for piano, first movement (1933)
• Violin Sonata no.3 (1948)
• Children’s Suite for piano, movements 1-5 (1933)
• Sinfonietta for strings (1936)
• Violin Concerto no.1 (1937)

Tuesday 26 May
• Three Songs (1938)
• Three Grotesques for piano (1935)
• Violin Sonata no.1 ‘Sonata da camera’ (1945)
• Violin Concerto no.2, movements 2 and 3 (1945)
• Overture (1943)

Wednesday 27 May
• String Quartet no.3 (1947)
• Violin Sonata no.4 (1949)
• Concerto for String Orchestra (1948)

Thursday 28 May
• String Quartet no.4, first movement (1951)
• Partita for violin and piano (1955)
• Ten Concert Studies for piano, nos 1-3 (1956)
• Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion (1958)

Friday 29 May
• Pensieri notturni for orchestra (1961)
• Piano Quintet no.2, movements 1 and 2 (1965)
• Violin Concerto no.7 (1965)
• Divertimento for strings (1965)

Taken from: http://onpolishmusic.com/2015/05/11/%E2%80%A2-bbc-r3-bacewicz-is-cotw-25-29-05/