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De Maria poet of the keyboard
The Konzertstück and the Introduction and Allegro found a penetrating and rapt interpreter in Pietro De MariaObscured by the usual practice of playing the better known Concert in A major, the two isolated pieces for piano and orchestra by Schumann had their moment at the center of the program of the Pomeriggi Musicali. Although it is practically inevitabile to look for traces and similarities, the Konzertstück and the Introduction and Allegro found a penetrating and rapt interpreter in Pietro De Maria. It isn’t easy to render the free concert form, that is, with no apparent sonata form, of the Introduction and Allegro, mature pages in which the reluctant melodies are more significant than the assertiveness of the themes, and the dialogue between the soloist and the “solos” of the orchestra takes unusual rhapsodic directions. Supported with delicacy and incisiveness by Corrado Rovaris, De Maria recreated Schumann’s extreme world of expression with conviction. Just as he had in the more brilliant Konzertstück.
The Konzertstück and the Introduction and Allegro found a penetrating and rapt interpreter in Pietro De MariaObscured by the usual practice of playing the better known Concert in A major, the two isolated pieces for piano and orchestra by Schumann had their moment at the center of the program of the Pomeriggi Musicali. Although it is practically inevitabile to look for traces and similarities, the Konzertstück and the Introduction and Allegro found a penetrating and rapt interpreter in Pietro De Maria. It isn’t easy to render the free concert form, that is, with no apparent sonata form, of the Introduction and Allegro, mature pages in which the reluctant melodies are more significant than the assertiveness of the themes, and the dialogue between the soloist and the “solos” of the orchestra takes unusual rhapsodic directions. Supported with delicacy and incisiveness by Corrado Rovaris, De Maria recreated Schumann’s extreme world of expression with conviction. Just as he had in the more brilliant Konzertstück.
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