Browse: The Real Chopin (series)

The predominant tone is of simple lyricism, and Kurzak captures it beautifully with her glinting soprano, moving easily between melancholy and shy eroticism...Kwiecien sings with soft-grained... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2010 More…

Helped by the shorter decay of the notes, textural details often obscured by modern instruments emerge, while utterly different tone colours from those we're used to throw fresh light on the... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

I scarcely noticed the words in either language, so bewitched was I by the simply wonderful vocal tone and phrasing. These are pure and exquisite respectively and the general approach is completely... — Early Music Review, February 2012 More…