Internationally acclaimed cellist Elinor Frey had just completed her successful tour in Australia (★★★★½ “The audience erupted into great applause.” – Sydney Arts Guide) and received a JUNO Award for her album Early Italian Cello Concertos (Analekta) released with Rosa Barocca, conducted by Claude Lapalme. Congratulations!

“ Virtuosity abounds in these concertos… Frey highlights these works’ expressiveness as well as their beauty and fireworks. Her sense of unity and proportion add flow to the highly ornamented Larghetto of Tartini’s Concerto in A Major. She joins the first movement of the Leo concerto in measured, noble flourishes like an opera seria protagonist coming onstage for their entrance aria. ” – Ealy Music America

Renowned Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska is back this winter with Chopin Recital 4 (ATMA Classique), a project that began in 2009 inspired by Janina’s desire to create four recitals around Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos.

Concert pianist Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences and critics around the world. She has been praised for her musical integrity, her refreshing natural approach and her unique piano sound thus becoming “one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine). Recent highlights included her return to the Berlin Piano Festival, three tours of North America and numerous concerts in Europe.

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