Frederick Chopin Institute
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Music of Polish Soul | Songs By Moniuszko and Karlowicz
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Beczała is one of today’s most important operatic tenors, and it is gratifying to see that he can scale his style down to a more intimate level so as not to overwhelm these songs. This release... —
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Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Nouveauté
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The predominant tone is of simple lyricism, and Kurzak captures it beautifully with her glinting soprano, moving easily between melancholy and shy eroticism...Kwiecien sings with soft-grained... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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In the Paderewski, we get sonorous tonality, smart phrasing and scintillating filigree. He shifts gears fluidly for the Godowsky, taking his time with the languorous introduction, and then introducing... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphony No. 9
Martha Argerich (piano), Jakub Waszczeniuk (trumpet)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky
[A] polished, spontaneous and characterful account, yet avoiding those moments of over self-conscious point making to be found in the Lugano version…in the ninth Symphony, Rabinovitch-Barakovsky... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Chopin's Letters: Improvisations
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Arild Andersen (double bass), Olavi Louhivuori, Andrzej Chyra
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The period-instrument colours sound wonderful, not least the oboe solos in the Menuetto of B f lat Symphony, played with poise and freedom. Though Lipiński’s more mature violin concertos give... —
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Richard-Hamelin is a supremely artistic, highly sensitive young pianist, whose strikingly original ideas remain true to the spirit of Chopin…[he also has] the emotional reservoirs to back them... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2012, First Choice
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There are at least three good reasons for investing in this fine recording. First, there is the prospect of hearing 10 of Paderewski’s best works for solo piano played on his own instrument...Second,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Moniuszko: Halka (4 Act Italian Version)
Tina Gorina, Monika Ledzion-Porczynska, Matheus Pompeu, Robert Gierlach, Rafal Siwek, Karol Kozlowski
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
New textures are revealed in the playing of Europa Galante, full of lightness and colour, and Biondi finds authentic snap in the rhythms, not least in the invigorating mazurka that closes Act... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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