FOCUS: In the run-up to Chopin Competition

Aleksander Laskowski, press spokesman of the National Chopin Institute, talks about the event's preliminary round, which brings to Warsaw some 160 pianists from across the world.

Pomnik Fryderyka Chopina

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Also in Focus: an interview with Paweł Kotla, music director of the Kalisz Philharmonic in western Poland.