Alexander Anisimov and Beata Szalwinska – the comeback in style

NEW YORK - July 20, 2022 - PRLog -- For several years, Alexander Anisimov and Beata Szalwinska have been working on the album "Rachmaninoff Romances", whose official European premiere took place in June 2022. The album provides music lovers not only beautiful duets, but also solo piano performances – a total of 28 songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The album has already started to collect enthusiastic reviews in dedicated media such as pizzicato.lu. and the artists are planning further joint projects.

At the beginning of June, the latest musical project of the world-famous duo – the exceptionally gifted Polish pianist Beata Szalwinska and the great opera bass, Alexander Anisimov – appeared on the European music market. The album "Rachmaninoff Romances" includes as many as 28 songs by Rachmaninoff, including duets (23 songs) and solo transcriptions for piano (5 songs) written by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Frederic Meinders himself, and interpreted by Beata Szalwinska.

The album was released in cooperation with Hänssler Classic music publishing house and has already started collecting positive reviews from the music world and experts both on the work of Sergei Rachmaninoff himself and classical music in general. Alain Steffenna in a review for the portal pizzicato.lu wrote, "It is a perfectly interpreted and thoughtful album with the participation of two amazing musicians and at the same time a work that will go down in history among the greatest recordings of Sergei Rachmaninoff's music."

Lukasz Debowski, the editor-in-chief of the website polskaplyta-polskamuzyka.pl claims that the album "Rachmaninoff Romances" is, "an expression of deep craftsmanship, but also artistic openness. Developing it, required both great precision and significant emotional involvement from Beata Szalwinska and Alexander Anisimov. It is quite a challenge to create a space where professionalism, refinement and artistry will work together on one, moving level of sensitivity. The combination of two other artistic souls gave birth to a new quality, without which this project would not be so engaging. The adaptation of Rachmaninoff's works deserved such an endearing project in many respects and should be considered as undoubted success."

"Rachmaninoff Romances" is the result of the collaboration of two exceptional artists who first performed together during a charity concert for Ukraine 8 years ago. Alexander Anisimov, naturally more expressive in everyday life, easily transfers this part of his character to his work. As a result, the interpretations of the songs he performs breathe enormous liveliness and provide an intensity of impressions. The performances of this outstanding bass take the audience on a journey to another dimension. This contrasts sharply with the delicate sensitivity of Beata Szalwinska's playing, which always contains enormous layers of musical poetry in her performances.

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