“All the first movements here have weighty matter at hand - the opening to the Fourth is especially portentous - yet Bacewicz's well-attested quickness of mind skips between subjects and moods like a distracted professor...I can't fault the technical address of Joanna Kurkowicz in thse first recordings but I wonder whether a less highly pressured approach would suit music that's quite intense enough on the page.” --Gramophone Magazine, October 2011
“what impresses most, throughout, is Bacewicz's continual inventiveness: she displays vital rhythmic energy in her fast movements and penetrating expressiveness in the slow ones...Anyone who loves the concertos of Szymanowski, Bloch, Martinu or Bartok will surely adore these works. Every one is a premiere recording, played with fire and passion.” --BBC Music Magazine, October 2011 *****
