Reviews

Kazimierz Rozbicki, Muzyka 21, October 2007

(…)The performer of the afternoon concert at the Castle was Joanna Marcinkowska, who in an outstanding manner played piano transcriptions (by Mikhail Pletnev) of music from Tchaikovsky’s ballets The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, a total of eighteen dances enchanting with their color and surprising by their rich texture, which the pianist brought out amazingly. Later she played with Bartosz Bryła (violin) and Stanisław Firlej (violoncello) a transcription of Schönberg’s early piece Verklärte Nacht for piano trio. All the three reached the heights of chamber music excellence, sculpting the expressive and romantic composition by the founding father of dodecaphony with extraordinary sensitivity.(…)