Bartosz Woroch: Dancer on a Tightrope CD review – compelling risk-taking

Woroch/Foo
(Champs Hill)This 20th-century programme from the UK-based Polish violinist Bartosz Woroch is full of intriguing repertoire. It starts with Grażyna Bacewicz’s 1924 Solo Sonata No 2, a fierce and brilliant piece, powerfully played. At its centre is the title track, a 1993 work by Sofia Gubaidulina in which Bartosz’s violin stretches and pirouettes, yearning for flight; underneath, the piano offers a kind of safety net, its strings at first set eerily vibrating from wit