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Grazyna Bacewicz

Sunday

08.03.2026

11:00 — Conservatoire de musique de Genève, Geneva

Series Chamber music
Chambre music

Programme

Alexandre Emardoboe

Yumiko AwanoAleksandar Ivanovviolin

Hannah Frankeviola

Olivier Morelcello

Saya Hashinopiano

Grazyna Bacewicz 
Trio for oboe, violin and cello 
Suite for two violins 
Quintet for piano and strings No. 1 

The music

Violinist, teacher, author of short stories and novels, the Polish Grazyna Bacewicz is above all recognized as an important composer who leaves a rich and varied catalog. This monographic concert will allow us to become better acquainted with her work.

The Trio for oboe, violin and cello dates from her neoclassical period. Written partly in Paris in 1935 at the time when she was working with Nadia Boulanger, it is marked by a certain insouciance and marks an important stage in the composer's evolution.

Composed in 1942 in occupied Poland, the Suite for two violins is surprisingly sunny with its seven short movements in a harmony oscillating between a neo-baroque writing spiced with a few touches of modernity.

Written ten years later, the Quintet for piano and strings No. 1 speaks a completely different language. It is a very personal work traversed by an intense and painful lyricism.

OSR Live

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JONATHAN NOTT

Conductor

Yvonne Naef

mezzo-soprano

György Ligeti
Poème symphonique, pour cent métronomes

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm süsser Tod (orchestration by Leopold Stokowski)

Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Recorded on 21 January 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony N°9 with choir for the finale of « Ode to Joy»

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 11 June 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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