Janina Fialkowska is one of today's most dependable pianists - bold, poetic, virtuosic and very much more…[the] cornucopian approach poses special challenges to the imagination, and technique, of the player. That Fialkowska has both in rich supply is abundantly clear in her recordings of Chopin's mazurkas, and much else besides.

[Fialkowska] has a temperament and style ideally suited to these miniature tone-poems.

The Canadian-Polish pianist’s Grieg selection...focuses on Chopin-influenced pieces...which she plays with the flexibility and song-like cantilena of her acclaimed real Chopin. She is as vivid in the character pieces...Her nimble-fingered Puck girdles the earth in a dizzying minute and 49 seconds.

the elegant poise of her playing is all the explanation you’d need for why so many great pianists are seduced by the seemingly simple pieces...Fialkowska is a Chopin interpreter at heart, and she could make these melodies sing on anything.

a musician of extraordinary sensibility and captivating, artless purity...There is a blend of affection and freshness to her playing that gives these well-known numbers new life, and across the whole spectrum of the familiar and unfamiliar she is an interpreter of sublime inspiration.