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26/01/16 00:00

[Yuko's Leg Rehabilitation Diary - 5]

Since 2013 I've suffered from a strained leg muscle after walking/training and my 'rehabilitation' wasn't so effective.

In the summer 2013, I performed at Piotrowice Nyskie. It was July, it was the start of a new music festival in Poland:

Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat major Op.44 and
Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op.11 chamber version
with Warsaw Philharmonic String Quartet,
solo recital and Beethoven Choral Fantasy in C minor Op.80 with TALIS CANTUS Otmuchów.

[video]
Schumann Piano Quintet rehearsing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ywYf7TmMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufRMij8T9WQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM1wK4Wyqgw
Beethoven Choral Fantasy rehearsing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtJVwCLElA

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And then in August, I played two Chopin Piano Concertos: in F minor Op.21 and E minor Op.11 solo version (Chopin's original) - for prof.Jan Ekier's 100th Birthday Special Concert, at International Music Festival 'Chopin and his Europe':

[video]
Chopin Piano Concerto in F minor rehearsing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpaQ6n5a-Io
TVP1 News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsbuqC-pi3g

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In September I had a Chopin recital at Żelazowa Wola, Chopin's birthplace. Scherzo in B-flat minor, Mazurkas, Waltzes and so on.

When I got up in the morning, I thought everything was alright. But after getting off the subway/metro, when I was walking down Nowy Świat Street towards Chopin Museum, where the driver from the organiser (Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina) waited for me, I felt something was wrong with my legs.

photograph: Yuko with Anna & Jim Parton at their Piotrowice Nyskie Palace, July 2013