© Protected - Selected Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

'There are the notes, there is what is behind the notes and there is what is between the notes'  Ignaz Friedman The preliminary rounds of the 19th Chopin Competition concluded on 4 May at the Warsaw Philharmonic after 12 days of daily auditions. The jury, chaired by Professor Piotr Paleczny, selected 66 pianists, who will return to Warsaw in less than five months for the 19th Chopin Competition.   Additionally, 19 performers have been admitted directly to Stage I of the Competition without going through the preliminaries. These are laureates of selected piano competitions such as competitions in Leeds, Tel Aviv, Miami, Bolzano, Hamamatsu, the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, as well as the Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition in Warsaw. In the first stage of the 19th Chopin Competition, we will hear 85 participants from 20 countries. The most represented countries are China, Japan, and Poland. The names of the participants qualified for the 1...