About the album "Première"

"... young musicians, given the fact that this combination of instruments does not have a lot of pieces at its disposal (the album contains some arrangements from other ensembles, i.e. Arvo Pärt's Fratres), ordered new compositions from their colleagues from the Warsaw University of Music. So we can find here pieces by Ignacy Zalewski, Andrzej Karałow and Edward Sielicki; there is also a composition by Barbara Kaszuba, who herself (she i...

"Their interpretation was astonishingly sonorous and full of temperament (...)" "Iwo Jedynecki plays expressively and was in constant mutual communication with his duo partner." "Karolina Mikołajczyk played with a truly romantic verve, warm vibrato and high sound quality." "In Grażyna Bacewicz's Oberek (...) the Duo showed their true virtuosity."

"The young musicians are already well-played, and their instruments melt into a romantic melody." "He brings the air out of the bellows with a lot of emotion, dynamically very flexible and with individual modulated sound, and his partner has an enthralling sound quality. The dense organ-like accordion sound connects surprisingly well with the violin (...)"

"An interesting arrangement of one of Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances led things off with fine musicality and style."

"(...) more fine music making, from two fine, well-matched players, with more ace-level accordion playing and more love from the audience."

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