Joanna Sochacka - Piano MusicIt is not very common to come across a composer whose genius is being praised, but whose music is more often discussed than performed at the same time. This is the paradoxical situation we are dealing with in the case of Grazyna Bacewicz and her compositional oeuvre. The creator herself was an outstanding figure, extremely versatile, belying the still popular in her time view that women, by their very nature, cannot act as creatively as men. Grazyna

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his elder colleague Smetana had turned to the genre of the piano trio in similar circumstances

A talented singer and writer (with 'Spinning Wheel' being his biggest hit)

The ferocious performance of American soprano Jennifer Holloway in the title role is matched by the sinister presentiments of her French colleague Véronique Gens and the tender outbursts of Dutch soprano Judith van Wanroij

It's talent roster was split between veteran stars (Roy Brown

the apparent stasis on the surface of the music invites the listener to look beneath and discover the detail teeming below

Listeners can therefore expect the highest standards from this second and final volume of Sammartini's sonatas

by a remarkably unified conception

The album also draws from the sounds of Houston's DJ Screw

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This is a double album to prove it

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