Symphonic Concert

Krzysztof Urbański (photo: Marco Borggreve), Kian Soltani (photo: Christian Kaufmann) Grażyna Bacewicz's youthful Scherzo for piano (1934) seems to allude to the name of the genre itself (scherzo means ‘joke’ in Italian), although this has not always been the rule; many scherzos, whether conceived as independent works or as movements of sonatas or symphonies, are instead marked by a serious or even dramatic character.