Joanna   Mądroszkiewicz

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• THE WASHINGTON POST
  Joanna Mądroszkiewicz is an exciting violinist, technically brilliant, willing to take great risks and able to justify them with her dazzling achievements.
   

• BACH ALL SONATAS AND PARTITAS FOR VIOLIN SOLO
  (GRAMOLA 98752/53)
  Kultur SPIEGEL
  „BACH von ganzem Herzen…“
  Many skilful violinists have exhausted themselves over this baroque marvel of sound. However, the in Vienna living Polish artist does not get intimidated by the cool polish of a Nathan Milstein or others. She is following every turn of emotion up to harshness and exuberance of every piece, passionately spontaneous and yet with a wonderful farsightedness: a whole hearted Bach
  
  KURIER (Vienna  January 8, 2006)
  REMARKABLE: Joanna Mądroszkiewicz plays a solo program and in Bach’s sonatas and partitas demonstrates how transparent complex polyphony can be, if the violinist can combine: clarity in handing the voices, sound colour, technical mastery, tonal beauty and expressive power.
   

• SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE
  WEILL VIOLIN CONCERTO
  DIE ILLUSTRIERTE NEUE WELT
  The violinist Joanna Mądroszkiewicz proved her musical and technical capabilities in an outstanding way. A mere pleasure, to listen her in her vitality, in the double touch passages, in the perpetual mobile chains of semiquavers and demisemiquavers. In an unconventional way she put tender poetic expression into that work too.
  
  DIE PRESSE, (Vienna)
  Already in the wildly gesticulating first movement the soloist could bring light into the dark of the composition with a highly different way of playing, sometimes cunning, sometimes reflective. Finally there prevailed sparkling, ingeniously played virtuosity. Violinist and ensemble (Vienna Philharmonic) were cheered justly.
   

• FONO FORUM
  ...She delivers Beethoven’s „Kreutzersonata“ the whole sublimate which this piece affords!
   

• SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
  ...a very impressive interpretation of Bach’s Sonata in Cmajor... a phenomenal way of playing Paganini!
   

•  BERLINER MORGENPOST
  A debut in the Berlin Philharmonic to all intents and purpose successful, revealing and of great promise. A superb-brilliant virtuosa!
   

• KLEINE ZEITUNG (Graz)
  ...DIE MĄDROSZKIEWICZ: this honourable title belongs to her!
   

• DE TELEGRAAF
  Szymanowski I Violon Concerto
  Stunning debut by Joanna Mądroszkiewicz. Faultless assurance and rare musicality characterized her playing of this concerto full of ecstatic atmosphere.
   

• KÖLNER STADTANZEIGER
  BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO
  ...Wonderful Polish violinist! Blazing playing-instinct, flaming passion in violin concerto by Beethoven. An outstanding soloist.
   

• THE STAR (Johannesburg)
  Extraordinary Polish violinist, Joanna Mądroszkiewicz! I will always remember her startlingly intense performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
   

• FONO FORUM
  DIALOG (EMI Classics CDC 7 54639 2)
  Joanna Mądroszkiewicz, former Polish infant prodigy impresses by a very affecting performance, flexible tone modulation and an enormous emotional engagement.
   

• DAILY TELEGRAPH
  ...a remarkable Polish artist, Joanna Mądroszkiewicz, we must hear her again!...
   

• RUCH MUZYCZNY (Warsaw)
  To her technical accomplishments there appear to be no limits. Her intensity, her multifarious means of expression, as well as the subtlety and beauty of her tones testify to an outstanding personality.
   

•  DIE PRESSE (Vienna)
  ...That is the way that music lives!
   

• THE WASHINGTON POST
  ...The ease with which she literally breezed through some of the most difficult works in the violinist’s repertoire was almost awesome. Mądroszkiewicz put together a program that obviously was intended to exploit her most impressive quality, an amazing technical virtuosity.
   

• WEST BLATT
  In Joanna Mądroszkiewicz’s artistic education and development there can followed a line up to Hubermann who still had studied with Joseph Joachim, the decisive Brahms promoter and one surmises where she can derive her particularity and her profile form.
   

•  DIE PRESSE (Vienna, February, 24, 2003)
  Rarissima By Egon Wellesz
  ...there are enormous difficulties in the solo part: Joanna Mądroszkiewicz mastered those with immense technical superiority and intensive colourful intonation...
   

• DIE KRONE (Vienna, Feb. 25, 2003)
  Large-scale operation for a rarely played Violin Concerto: The polish artist Joanna Mądroszkiewicz, Gerd Albrecht and the Wiener Symphoniker performed Egon Wellesz’ Opus 84 at the Musikverein. Impressing, with energy, vitality and bravura they introduced noble constructions and artful emotional music by Wellesz.
   

• KLASSIK heute
  Wieniawski, Polonaise brillante
  (MDG, 603 0863-2)
  ...Wieniawski’s fellow country woman meets all the demands of this virtuoso music more than well, she performs enthusiastically and take her chances, but at the same time technically perfect... stylistically she is committed to the great violinists of old, who still had an authentic relationship to Wieniawski’s music... Fancy food for friends of virtuoso music for violin!
   

• CHOPIN, arrangements by…
  (MDG 603 1296-2)
  KURIER (Sunday ,May 1, 2005)
  What can do the violinist who wants to play Chopin? Outstanding violinist Joanna Mądroszkiewicz plays together with Paul Gulda Chopin’s Waltzer and Mazurkas with elegance and virtuosity, Nocturnes are dark pieces with a colour of sad and gloomy night worthwhile!
   

• Szymanowski`s II Violin Concerto at Brucknerhaus
  (Kronen Zeitung, November 28, 2002)
  ABO in Brucknerhaus: Szymanowski’s Nr.2: volcanically eruptions in the interpretation of Joanna Mądroszkiewicz: she is the radiant victor!