Weronika Chodakowska (piano) - 'From Lviv to Paris' and 'From Paris to Lviv' - Piano Works of Karol Mikuli (1821-1897)
FROM PARIS TO LVIV Recital of Piano Works by Karol Mikuli (1821-1897) Weronika Chodakowska (piano) Last night was cold and slightly foggy in Warsaw being a week before Christmas Eve. I wandered the expanding and rather exuberant, glittering central streets of the Polish capital, a seasonally festive Warsaw. There have been so many exponential, glamorous changes here since I first visited the city to work on a joint venture banking project in January 1992. Even at that time, Warsaw was regarded as 'like Paris' by many visiting Ukrainians. Contemporary Warsaw at night I was en route to a recital and presentation of the second recording of p iano works of a monument to Karol Mikuli (1821-1897), the Polish pianist, composer, editor, close friend and favourite pupil of Fryderyk Chopin . The pieces (mostly world premiere recordings) were to be performed by the gifted young Polish pianist Weronika Chodakowska. I was a lit...