In this new recording, balancing some of Chopin’s shortest pieces with his big, final sonata, the now 30-year-old Russian-Lithuanian pianist continues to show an imaginative musical personality...He opens with a flourish, performing the Mazurka Op. 6 No. 3 with arresting freedom and poetry. He mixes grandeur and delicacy – maybe not always enough of the latter – throughout his seemingly arbitrary selection of 11 of the 57 mazurkas.

The Lithuanian-Russian pianist delves first into the galaxy of personalities and emotions of the Mazurkas. His selection goes chronologically, covering the full span of Chopin’s career, thoroughly exploring every little corner along the way, shaping every gesture, chiselling every phrase and colouring every voice to the point where we approach the fine line between liveliness and aggression, between the stylish and the stylised.