Joanna Sochacka - Bacewicz: Piano Music (2021)

Grażyna Bacewicz was an outstanding, extremely versatile artist. Her life contradicted the then popular view that a woman, by its very nature, cannot achieve excellent results in several spheres of artistic activity in a way that a man could. Among her most popular works are those written for violin. However, the new album, which will be released at the beginning of March, is devoted to her piano compositions.

Polish pianist Joanna Sochacka is a PhD student at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź in the class of Hanna Holeksa. She also studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria in the class of prof. Milana Chernyavska. Her latest album includes a number of piano compositions by Grażyna Bacewicz. These are works well known to the international audience (Piano Sonata No. 2, 1953) and pieces that are rarely performed (Two Etudes for Piano and Piano Sonata No. 1,1949). In addition, the album includes two pieces first released on CD: Piano Sonata of 1930 and Etude for Piano of 1949.

Tracklist
01. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Maestoso (6:54)
02. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Largo (7:36)
03. Piano Sonata No. 2 - Toccata. Vivo (4:13)
04. Two Piano Etudes - Modarato (3:58)
05. Two Piano Etudes - Etude on Thirds, Vivace (2:33)
06. Piano Sonata No. 1 - Moderato (6:02)
07. Piano Sonata No. 1 - Andante sostenuto (5:27)
08. Piano Sonata No. 1 - Scherzo. Molto allegro (3:11)
09. Piano Sonata No. 1 - Finale. Molto allegro (5:31)
10. Concert Etude (3:23)
11. Piano Sonata - Moderato e maestoso (8:30)
12. Piano Sonata - Adagio (3:27)
13. Double fugue. Allegro ben moderato (2:50)