Reviews
„The Poznań Sorceress of the Piano" - Andrzej Chylewski, Głos Wielkopolski, May 20, 2009.
Who else in our city in the year 2009 can afford such an extensive instrumental recital with such a diversified repertoire and such a technique of playing? One could well ask this question after the performance of the Poznań pianist Joanna Marcinkowska at the Aula Nova on Sunday. (...) We heard a sequence of pieces by Fryderyk Chopin (a nocturne, a waltz, a scherzo, four mazurkas, the Andante spianato and the polonaise in E flat major), Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel and a suite from the ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (arranged by Mikhail Pletnev). This excellent pianist’s principal strengths, beside her breathtaking technique, are the impressive sincerity and clarity of playing, and her sense of sound. The artist ended the two-hour recital with a majestic encore: Franz Liszt’s paraphrase of a theme from the opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi.
