“Smietana is a powerful player with bagfuls of personality and takes admirable risks”
(BBC music magazine)
“Alicja Smietana’s account of Bach’s Partita displays her impeccable technique, perfect intonation, a nicely rounded tone and a feeling for period correctness”
(The Strad)
“Smietana and Berezovsky already display the gravitas of players twice their age”
(Gramophone)