Bacewicz Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. 2
WDR Sinfonieorchester/Łukasz Borowicz
CPO 555660-2
Bacewicz’s music is always absorbing, with great rhythmic drive and underlying tension. The works on this beautifully performed disc add playfulness and sonic adventure to that drama: both the Symphony No. 2 and Musica sinfonica in tre movimenti have a neo-classical zip, and creative musical figures (a string quintet’s tremolandos and trills, for example) abound. Delightful. (SW)★★★★★
Brahms Orchestral & Vocal Works
Orquesta y Coro Comunidad de Madrid/Marzena Diakun
IBS Classical IBS132023
From ’s gorgeous opening onwards, this sumptuously performed album of Brahms works for chorus and orchestra gently lures us into the world of the composer at his most benign. Agnieszka Rehlis is a warmly expressive soloist in the , while the exquisite Four Songs Op. 17 for female voices, horn and harp
