Impromptus No. 1 Op 29, No. 2 Op. 36, No. 3 Op. 51 (Complete works of Frederic Chopin Book 7)
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Plate , pages Reissue - as LMC in , plate Plates , 90 pages Reissue — as LMC , , plate Schirmer Re-issued in and Retrieved from " http: Reprinted extensively by Kalmus, Dover and others. Pieces ; For piano ; Scores featuring the piano ; For 1 player. Ballades and Impromptus 6. In the post-crisis single disc recital from , her sound is richer, deeper, more varied; her rhythm is stronger, and her colouristic palette is wider and more perfectly controlled. There is a new and unmistakable joie de vivre, an almost improvisatory abandon and, frequently, a sense of sheer unbuttoned fun not normally associated with either Fialkowska or Chopin.
She shows a greater flexibility and buoyancy of rhythm, yet without losing sight of the whole. This recording is without any doubt one of the most beautiful contributions to the Chopin anniversary. Stepping out of the way of the music is something Fialkowska does with clever and manipulative grace. The piano sound is bright and full.
All around - another winner for them. Five out of five. Janina Fialkowska and the string ensemble achieve an almost perfect consensus in their playing…As always, the playing is of the highest quality. In March, pianist Janina Fialkowska and her favourite chamber-music collaborators came to the Glenn Gould Studio to seduce us with two Mozart piano concertos that the composer had reduced to salon-size forces.
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This disc, recorded shortly afterward, captures the same magic of impeccable musicianship and transparent phrasing. What was created here is an opalescent mixture of chamber musical intimacy and concert brilliancy, of concentration on musical soundness and virtuous joy of playing. This recording with Janina Fialkowska is one of the most successful contributions to this niche repertoire I ever encountered. Fialkowska maintains a luminescent, pearly legato tone at all dynamic levels, her cantabile phrasing creating the enchanting impression of musical droplets falling gently from the sky.
Yet her fastidious attention to detail never draws attention to itself but rather serves as the perfect mechanism to facilitate readings that affectionately draw the listener in while maintaining Classical equilibrium at all times Album with the Chamber Players of Canada: The biggest change is in immediacy, for a smaller, more flexible accompaniment permits more rhetorical detail, consistently moving the sentimental focus from the general to the particular.
Even modest string melodies carry more import, and Fialkowska makes every note, however ornamental, significant. The Globe and Mail Toronto. Longtime champion of the music of Chopin, Janina Fialkowska plays these superb as well as familiar works with full romanticism. The technique is impeccable, the scales flow, the melodies sing, the folklore dances.
The greatest impact of this setting is its significantly heightened sense of intimacy. In the slow movements of both concertos, the E minor especially, these sparse strings make the piano line compellingly poignant - breathtaking at times.
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Expect a sniffle and some tears. This is wonderful playing Janina Fialkowska has always been one of the few pianists who makes me like — sometimes even love — Franz Liszt. The Canadian-born pianist is also one of those rare musicians who, in the age of digital micro-editing, makes on-the-edge- recordings that capture much of the spontaneity and risk-taking of her live performances. And Fialkowska is in full flight in this new recording … … she goes straight for the poetic heart of the pieces, in open-hearted, fresh and emotionally charged performances that are so free of gratuitous bombast, excessive sentimentality or virtuosic posturing that they will win over even the most hardened Lisztophobe.
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International Record Review UK. La Scena Musicale Canada. Fialkowska performs the Etudes with immense bravura, speed, richness of hues. A devil-take-the-hindmost attitude in the fast pieces, as well as the cliff-hanger quality in many of the most challenging passages, contribute to the electricity and excitement in her performances … … Fialkowska, like her mentor Rubinstein, never once produces an ugly, abrasive sound … exquisite coloring, expression, and rapt musicality … An important and excellent new release … American Record Guide USA. Fialkowska possesses the whole bag of tricks, technically speaking—every hurdle in this vast and treacherous obstacle course is met crisply, authoritatively, brilliantly, precipitately, and often with great tonal finesse The Crescent Moon Anton Rubinstein: The Night Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Nightingale Alexander Borodin: Fialkowska is pianistically the master of the singing melodic line, which she moulds with the eloquence of Maria Callas singing bel canto.
In pure technique, the challenges of Russian piano composition — which often seemed the more insistent half of these songs — held no terrors for her. Her interpretation of the beautiful slow movement to the F Minor Concerto, where the opening wind entries are taken by the piano thus establishing it from the first as a protagonist is a case in point. As a musician she combines high intelligence with a big virtuoso technique and a great flair for the romantic repertoire Her expressive playing - Liszt is not all hammer and tongs - can almost be construed as a revision.
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The beautiful music on this release is matched by very beautiful playing, entirely of the kind, one imagines, that Chopin himself would have admired. Fialkowska's formidable technique tends to make these extremely challenging works seem effortless, natural, and most of the time, spontaneous.
Best of all, she is able to communicate her deep psychic identification with some of Chopin's most gripping works in terms of elevated expressivity, elegance, and drama. This disc could well prove to be the premier Chopin release of the present decade. It's an invigorating display, with Fialkowska's superb technique piloting everything unfailingly and Chopin's vast range of drama vividly explored.
As with everything from Fialkowska, a strong recommendation. The Winnipeg Free Press. I enjoyed the sonatas very much. The B —flat minor is imbued with passion and drama … In fact, all of these performances sound fresh and new, bold and forthright. Here the considerable qualities that marked her first … are extended into an altogether more dazzling relish and brio, even a touch of dare-devilry. She plays the Piano Concerto's second subject with a special sense of its intimacy and spins off Paderewski's icing-sugar figuration with an open-hearted delight in its sparkle and charm.
The cadenza in particular is unfurled with great brilliance and the sort of improvisatory flair that in the past sometimes eluded her, and the final sprints of both works are given with a genuine rush of adrenalin.
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Janina Fialkowska attacks it with energy and dash, and layers the textures even more sensitively. Her passagework, even in quick arpeggios, is always full-bodied, yet she has no trouble scaling back the sound. Note the calm poise she brings to the first movement's chorale subject after the preceding Sturm und Drang, and her sensitive layering of the Romanze's main theme … Fialkowska and Wit's persuasive musicality and commitment Positive Feedback Online. I find her approach particularly compelling in the finale of the concerto where her firm articulation and slightly more relaxed tempo gives the music more strength of purpose and direction than does Kupiec Classics Today.
Fialkowska brings dash and flair to this pairing of the two works Paderewski wrote for piano and orchestra. Neither piece escapes the influence of Chopin and Liszt, but there is a robustness of colouring, tinged with Polish folk inflections, which gives them a personal stamp.
The vigorous piano writing, designed for maximum impact, gives opportunities for Fialkowska to display her own virtuosity. Fialkowska brings us the first budget-price version of Paderewski's Piano Concerto and lavishes her considerable resources on both the concerto and the lively, attractive Polish Fantasy. Paderewski's Piano Concerto of is a lovely work, a vehicle for virtuoso display, as is the Fantasy.
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Janina Fialkowska is an articulate and sensitive soloist. The Independent London, UK.
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This is fresh and unpretentious music, and richly orchestrated. Fialkowska plays with natural grace rather than bravura. It is the right approach. Janina Fialkowska has not only a marvelous interpretive affinity for this music but the technical chops to match. Paderewski's Piano Concerto has many charming melodies, tremendous bravura passages and plenty of interesting interaction between piano and orchestra … most attractive disc.
Janina Fialkowska makes a strong case for both works with her brilliant playing. Her style and approach to the piano in Chopin are close to Rubinstein's, which in itself is a supreme compliment. The result is personal, visceral interpretations that capture much of the excitement, warmth and spontaneity of her concerts. Fialkowska's Chopin is authoritative, dramatic, and, where appropriate, touching. His collaborator is Janina Fialkowska, whose feeling for line and coloration provides its own flair and authority.
Pianist Fialkowska, everywhere solid and eloquent, also brings some energizing, inspired touches to the songs. Ungarische Zigeunerweisen Adolf Henselt: Nocturne in B Flat Major, op. Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. Fialkowska's technique is breathtaking. Her runs are dazzling, her fortissimos are thunderous.
She is delightfully witty where wit is called for. Nothing seems to present any problem to her. The Montreal-born pianist, internationally praised for her Chopin and Liszt and her interest in Polish romantic and contemporary composers, is a dazzling technician with great musical sensitivity and a keen sense of the panache needed to pull off tremendous difficulties with the appearance of ease.
It's an impressive programme, delivered with assuredness and sensitivity. Impassioned clarity and exuberant sweep A most welcome recording. Fialkowska is a superb advocate of the composer in all his moods and stages, playing with clarity and an intuitive sense of rhythmic nuance. Fialkowska's playing is so authoritative, exploratory and beautifully coloured that she sounds as if on a personal mission to bring this exotic and highly individual music to the masses The Winnipeg Free Press.
Fialkowska's subtle interpretations bring out the best in this composer. The tenderness and vulnerability of Fialkowska's soprano, which 'listens to' and is transformed by the bass's disturbance, is worth the price of the disc, and blows other versions I compared Piano Concerto in E major, op. Janina Fialkowska is an absolute dream of a pianist, and in this repertoire she is also a consummate musician.
There's no exaggeration, only subtle shaping of every musical idea and phrase. Janina Fialkowska brings dash and flair to this pairing … The vigorous piano writing, designed for maximum impact, gives opportunity for Fialkowska to display her own virtuosity. But she and the orchestra also respond sensitively to the reflective moments in among the thrills.
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Die Taubenpost Ludwig Uhland: Fialkowska, on the other hand has fine technique and a splendid understanding of Schubert and so emerges as at the very least an equal partner, and I sometimes found myself paying more attention to her than to the vocalist. It has been a long time since I've heard piano playing as good as this! Every aspect of Fialkowska's artistry is astounding. To mention just a few, her interpretive projection of the essence of the music in each work is tremendously satisfying, her prodigious technical polish, always sublimated to the music, is magnificent, and her keen sense of style is captivating, enthralling, at times magical.
One ingredient of her musicality is a sublime The work is generally classified as a work for piano and orchestra; however, Chopin also wrote a piano solo version. Music and Musicians in French. Archived from the original on Archived from the original TXT on Introduction and Polonaise brillante, Op.
Nocturne in C minor, Op. Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op.
Nocturne in B Major", "Op. Grave - Doppio movimento 7: Classical CD of the Year. Janina Fialkowska is a veteran performer and recording artist who at age 64 continues to mature and develop. The Winnipeg Free Press I enjoyed the sonatas very much.
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