devoted to rediscovering nineteenth‑century music — not with nostalgia, but with renewed clarity and purpose

We believe that authenticity is not about repeating the past but confronting it — questioning habits, challenging conventions, and creating performances that are alive, unpredictable, and human.

We perform Romantic repertoire, seeking to reveal its expressive depth and historical truth on historical instruments, bringing back the raw energy, colors, and contrasts that once defined this music before it became “romanticized”— stripped of its edge in favor of beauty, sweetness, and uniform expression.

Our artistic roots are closely tied to the historically informed performance tradition

The inspiration behind Nie | Romantyczni comes from years of collaboration and study with leading interpreters such as Kent Nagano, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, and the musicologist Clive Brown, whose research on nineteenth-century performance practice has been fundamental to our work. This approach blends scholarship with performance insight, bringing together what we learned from Baroque and Classical practice — clarity, rhetoric, and structure — with the emotional depth of Romantic expression, deeply rooted in the historically informed performance tradition.

Through projects like the Dresdner Festspielorchester / Concerto Köln’s performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle on historical instruments, Federico Bresciani experienced first-hand how authenticity can transform interpretation.
His own work and studies with Harnoncourt and Bolton in the field of Baroque and Classical repertoire brought a deep understanding of style, rhetoric, and structure — insights that now shape our Romantic sound.

Nie | Romantyczni’s background in Baroque and early Classical performance continuously informs how we approach later music: with the same attention to phrasing, articulation, and emotional clarity.