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(Violin concerto No. 2, op. 61)

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• KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (1882 -1937)
  Complete Works for Violin and Piano
  
  THE BEST SZYMANOWSKI! "...the CD convinces in hundred percent.."
  SUPERSONIC AWARD (Pizzicato 06/09)
  
  "…Both soloists impress with their great virtuosic abilities and their wonderful sense of ensembles unveils the many sensitive nuances hidden in these works"
  (www.classical.net 2009/Gerald Fenech)
   

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

• BACH ALL SONATAS AND PARTITAS FOR VIOLIN SOLO (GRAMOLA 98752/53)
  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.
  Kultur SPIEGEL „BACH von ganzem Herzen…“
  
  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 color, technical mastery, tonal beauty and expressive power.
  Kurier, January 8, 2006

• SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE, WEILL VIOLIN CONCERTO
  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 Illustrierte Neue Welt
  
  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.
  Die Presse
   

• She delivers Beethoven’s „Kreutzersonata“ the whole sublimate which this piece affords!
  Fono Forum
   

• ...a very impressive interpretation of Bach’s Sonata in C-major... a phenomenal way of playing Paganini!
  Süddeutsche Zeitung
   

• A debut in the Berlin Philharmonic to all intents and purpose successful, revealing and of great promise. A superb-brilliant virtuosa.
  Berliner Morgenpost
  
  DIE MĄDROSZKIEWICZ: this honorable title belongs to her!
  Kleine Zeitung, Graz
   

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

• BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO
  ...Wonderful Polish violinist! Blazing playing-instinct, flaming passion in violin concerto by Beethoven. An outstanding soloist.
  Kölner Stadtanzeiger
  
  Extraordinary Polish violinist, Joanna Mądroszkiewicz! I will always remember her startlingly intense performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
  The Star, Johannesburg
   

• 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.
  Fono Forum
   

• ...a remarkable Polish artist, Joanna Mądroszkiewicz, we must hear her again!...
  Daily Telegraf
  
   

• 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.
  Ruch Muzyczny, Warsaw
   

• ...That is the way that music lives!
  Die Presse
   

• 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.
  The Washington Post
   

• 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.
  West Blatt
   

• Rarissima By Egon Wellesz
  ...there are enormous difficulties in the solo part: Joanna Mądroszkiewicz mastered those with immense technical superiority and intensive colorful intonation...
  Die Presse, February 24, 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.
  Neue Kronen Zeitung, February 25, 2003
   

• 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!
  KLASSIK heute

• CHOPIN ARRANGEMENTS BY… (MDG 603 1296-2)
  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!
  KURIER, Sunday, May 1, 2005

• Szymanowski's II Violin Concerto at Brucknerhaus
  ABO in Brucknerhaus: Szymanowski’s No.2: volcanically eruptions in the interpretation of Joanna Mądroszkiewicz: she is the radiant victor!
  Neue Kronen Zeitung, November 28, 2002