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

Grammophone Magazine Recording of the Month JS Bach  Das Wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 1  Ewa Pobłocka   pf  (Fryderyk Chopin Institute NIFCCD 062-063)  Ewa Pobłocka may not be among the most familiar names, but this is simply wonderful Bach-playing, by turns effervescent and consoling, musically imaginative and pianistically resourceful. Click to  Read the review I would wish to endorse and congratulate  Ewa Pobłocka  on   this proud award. I agree with many of the above reviewer's comments (do read it) and encourage you to add this superb account to your music collection.  The present recording has been superbly engineered the the outstanding sound man Lech Dudzik and Gabriela Blicharz on a glorious Japanese   Shigeru Kawai SK-EX. I would also wish to remind readers of the remarkable birthday recital  Ewa Pobłocka gave on 22 November 2017 at the Filharmonia in Warsaw. I re-post this as I w...

Fryderyk Chopin 1 March 1810 Żelzowa Wola, Poland - 17 October 1849, Paris For a fascinating detailed examination in English of the originally disputed date of his birth  http://en.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/life/biography/page/2

The Pigeon of  Peace in flight from the Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park This evening I have just arrived in Hiroshima in Japan from Warsaw on  this is my first visit to the country . Such a long and tiring journey from Poland but worth every minute given the humanist aim. I intend to keep a daily internet journal of my experiences here over the next four days as part of an initiative known as the ‘Music for Peace’ project. Perhaps a few more personal observations as well. The concept brings together communities of different nations and cultures, in this case musicians from Poland, France and Japan, performing together and engaged in workshops  and commemorative activities with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. This laudable aim is to achieve closer international cooperation and understanding. The passionate love of the music of Fryderyk Chopin in Japan scarcely need underlining. In the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin P...