The album Romantic Duets takes listeners on an unobvious and surprising journey: Romantic music in its most intimate version expressed through female voices with words of poems written by creators of different eras.

These songs have been performed and recorded many times, but it is the choice of compositions and their mutual interweaving dialogue that are always of utmost significance. On this album, we suggest you to listen to duets accompanied by piano, a vocal form that gained the greatest popularity in the 19th century as a form of home music making but also as part of a repertoire able to reflect the most sublime feelings and their personal, deeply intimate nature.

The composers of these songs are artists whose output fell in the 19th century, e.g. Gioacchino Rossini, associated primarily with opera, the brilliant Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the famous pianist Józef Wieniawski (Henryk's brother), the late Romantic artist Ernest Chausson and Pauline Viardot, one of the few officially respected female composers of her day. The Romantic idiom, despite some stylistic and expressive changes, was also continued by composers whose works were already associated with new trends present in music at the threshold of the 20th century – Jan Karłowicz and his son Mieczysław, Władysław Żeleński and Gabriel Fauré.

The performers are two artists, soloists of the Polish Royal Opera: Anna Radziejewska (mezzo- soprano) and Justyna Reczeniedi (soprano). The singers are accompanied on the piano by Krzysztof Trzaskowski.