Reviews
Tadeusz Szantruczek, Gazeta Poznańska, Feb. 14–15, 2004
(…)Beside the appearance of Tadeusz Strugała, another attraction of this evening was the recital of Joanna Marcinkowska, a highly talented pianist, the winner of twenty-one national Polish and foreign competitions. She is probably the first graduate in the entire history of the Poznań Academy with so many brilliant achievements in the realm of piano playing. On Friday, Joanna Marcinkowska played the 1st Piano Concerto in E flat Major by Ferenc Liszt, an ornate piece tightly packed with late-Romantic emotions, not only in the orchestral score, but also, and principally, in the part of the solo piano. I was truly fascinated to hear and see this very young and lean lady manage the powerful chords, the roulades played in intervals of an octave, the technical difficulties of the fingering, the dynamics and the contrasting emotions. She reaffirmed her worth as a pianist by the encore, which was another piece by Liszt, the Tarantella. The soloist, the conductor and most musicians of the orchestra deserved the ovation at the end of the concert.
