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By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  July 25, 2006

The acoustics of the room warmed the cold hard tone of the Yamaha, and Tomsic’s articulation — technical and musical — was more impressive than ever. The Third Ballade began almost casually, as if she were remembering an old story; then the story itself took over and leaped into life. Tomsic has a powerful and vivid sense of the music’s contrasts — both Chopin’s soulful and singing tenderness and his swirling whirlwinds of passion.

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