Reviews

Józef Kański, Ruch Muzyczny, October 2004

(…)Most spectacular was the performance of the Poznań pianist Joanna Marcinkowska, who eight years ago had won the Competition Artur Rubinstein In Memoriam in Bydgoszcz, and now, accompanied by the Koszalin symphonic orchestra conducted by Aleksandar Marković, played Brahms’s Concerto in D Minor with so much understanding of the monumental musical form, with such suggestive and unabating tension of the long-range melodic narrative, and with such dynamic power and brio where the style of the composition allowed them (at the end of the 1st movement and in the Finale), that she brought about a spontaneous outburst of the audience’s delight. This was a truly joyful experience, and a foremost attraction of this year’s Festival.