The Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s new recording series has been given the name ‘Resonance’. The music presented in this series showcases works written in response to the music of Fryderyk Chopin and the first volume is devoted to the music of Ignacy Paderewski.

We find a clear trace of Chopin’s legacy in the music of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and it is with him, on the 100th anniversary of Poland’s regaining of independence, that the label begins their new phonographic series. The recording contains remarkable works for piano: the Sonata in E flat minor, op.21, as well as popular miniatures in the interpretation of eminent American pianist Kevin Kenner, the winner of the 1990 Chopin Competition. The artist plays a 1925 Steinway piano that once belonged to Ignacy Jan Paderewski.