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Reviews of Eric Lu's First prize Laureate Recordings of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw 2025. National Chopin Institute 'Blue Series'. International Chopin Competition and DG

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  Reviews of the First Prize  Laureate Recordings   19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition  Warsaw 2025 Eric Lu  Eric Lu NIFCCD 800-801 Eric Lu Chopin Piano Competition 2025 https://sklep.nifc.pl/pl/produkt/77662-eric-lu-chopin-piano-competition-2025 Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Eric Lu achieved a richly-deserved first prize despite some public, even surprisingly private, professional musical objections (controversy is often an outcome in this competition). I noticed the overall level of pianism by participants became higher with each competition.  All the pianists and musicians from the outset are beyond rational belief gifted. Miracles. All are winners but not all win ....  A journey of rewarding even exciting discovery lies in store for the interpretatively adventurous and musically perceptive pianist searching for his own true voice and what he considers to be that of the composer. Intuition strengthened with knowledge.  Hear...
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Weronika Chodakowska (piano) - 'From Lviv to Paris' and 'From Paris to Lviv' - Recital and CD of Piano Works by Karol Mikuli (1821-1897) - composer, pianist, editor and friend of Chopin

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FROM LVIV TO PARIS Piano Works of Karol Mikuli  (1821-1897) Weronika Chodakowska (piano) The psychological and creative complexities of living in the shadow of a renowned genius must be manifold. There are many examples of fine pianist-composers who studied or worked with an immortal musical creative genius and fully recognized with a sense of inadequacy the immense qualities of their work. They clearly felt a selfless respect towards their master, even a sacred devotion to the preservation of his work.   However, I am plagued by the question of the degree such acolytes experience a conscious or subconscious conflict or threat to their own creativity and musical self-esteem. Are they tempted into invidious comparisons during their own creative impulses, evolve competitive or derivative stylistic utterances or desperately attempt to escape an inescapable musical influence, even considering the undoubted quality of their own musical invention ? This speculation arises strongly i...
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