Aleksandra Swigut - Chopin: Variations in B-Flat Major, Sonata in B-Flat Minor and other selected works

A new recording by a talented young Polish pianist with great charisma, laureate of the International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. The album, from the series The Real Chopin, features Variations on La ci darem la mano, Scherzo in C sharp minor, Barcarolle, Mazurkas Op. 67, Sonata in B flat minor and Contredanse in G flat major, and Chopin's own Improvisations on Prelude in E minor, dedicated to Szabolcs Eszteniyi.

Aleksandra Swigut, whose first CD (with works by Robert Schumnann, recorded with cellist Marcin Zdunik) the Institute released in 2014, plays here on an 1858 Erard piano from the NIFC collection.

[Swigut] negotiates the main octave theme more deftly than most pianists can play single notes, while the instrument's light action and slightly muffled patina enhances Swigut's well-differentaiated legato and detach� articulation. � Gramophone