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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...

 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 visitors from the East.  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 littl...