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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Composer of the Week: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): Episode 4: Opening the Modernist Floodgates

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Episode 4: Opening the Modernist Floodgates

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Opening the Modernist Floodgates

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Opening the Modernist Floodgates

Donald Macleod describes the effect on Bacewicz of changes in Poland after Stalin's death.

Donald Macleod and Polish music expert Adrian Thomas focus on the effect on Bacewicz of cultural changes in Poland following Stalin's death in 1953.

Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 had an almost immediate liberalising effect on Polish culture. The first Warsaw Autumn festival that followed opened the modernist floodgates, introducing to Polish audiences a raft of previously proscribed composers. Donald Macleod is joined by Polish music expert Adrian Thomas to explore this period in the life and music of Grazyna Bacewicz.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of composer and violinist Grazyna Bacewicz

Donald Macleod is joined by Polish music expert Adrian Thomas to explore the life and work of Polish composer and violinist Grazyna Bacewicz, who left a legacy of over 200 compositions

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