Concert Performances

Grażyna Bacewicz’s Partita for Orchestra

TŌN, conducted by Leon Botstein, performs Grażyna Bacewicz’s Partita for Orchestra in a livestreamed concert from the Fisher Center at Bard on May 5, 2024.

0:18 Preludium: Grave (very slow)
3:11 Toccata: Vivace (lively)
7:12 Intermezzo: Andantino melancolico (moderate, with melancholy)
9:48 Rondo: Presto (quickly)

Grażyna Bacewicz
Born: 2/5/1909 in Łódź, Poland
Died: 1/17/1969 at age 59 in Warsaw

Written: 1955, at age 46
Premiered: 5/17/1957 in Warsaw; National Philharmonic Orchestra; Arnold Rezler conductor

>Read concert notes by TŌN violinist Emerie Mon