Browse: Frederick Chopin Institute (label)

with both the RPO under their Polish associate conductor Grzegorz Nowak and the soloist Alena Baeva on bold form from the start, this is a compelling interpretation...Rebirth requires a conductor... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Three contrasting cello concertos cast fresh light on each other in performances by Polish cellist Andrzej Bauer, whose cultivated, singing tone is a constant virtue...With the conductor Jacek... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Not for the first time, one finds oneself asking ‘How does Howard Shelley do it?’ Quite apart from simultaneously leading the orchestra while nonchalantly dispatching showers of semiquavers –... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019 More…

In this modern-dress production, all the roles are performed with conviction and the tensions inherent in the piece are painfully exposed. Ewa Tracz realises Ulana’s mix of strength and vulnerability,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Picture & Sound) More…

It is seldom that recordings convey such a sense of lost beauty recovered as these in the Music of Chopin's Time series. Though rare, both these Piano Concertos have been previously recorded,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

she has a good instinct for improvising, and I hope she’ll become more daring. In all, a distinctive release. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

It is [in the Chopin] especially that this replica of an 1819 Graf, and Ritter’s handling of it, comes into greatest focus with an articulation of phrase and texture that galvanises such familiar... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…