Reviews

From the stormy, rumbling bass at the opening of the Sonata No. 3 in B minor, De Maria offered a dramatic reading, replete with grand romantic gestures and emotional turmoil. A fleet Scherzo danced from the keys with feathery lightness but the Largo was the heart of the performance. With a free sense of rhythm and phrasing, De Maria seemed to be almost improvising the music.“The Romantic Spec...

In the second part, Brahms' Quintet in F minor op. 34 with De Maria at the piano. And right from the first statement of the main theme of the Allegro ma non troppo, thrills claw at the soul. The tension is incessant, even throughout the pianist's unspeakably sublime rubato in the Andante, un poco adagioThe Fonè Quartet, which includes the violinis...

La poésie seule guide un interprète qui exploite toutes les ressources expressives du piano moderne. Un choix qui ne nuit cependant jamais à la clarté polyphonique et ne conduit à aucune surcharge, aucun surlignage déplacé. Du très grand art…...Merveilleux voyage aussi que celui que l’on entreprend le lende...

...Gaspard de la Nuit par lequel l’interprète termine son concert. L’ouvrage de Ravel est de retour dans le répertoire de Pietro De Maria après une dizaine d’années d’absence; puisse-t-il ne plus le plus le quitter. Comme dans la Sonate «Funèbre», souvent dévoyée par les excès de certains virtuoses, le Gaspard de Pietro De Maria invite à un pur envoûtement. Dès Ondine, d’une fluidité incroyable, on comprend ce qui guide une interprétation dédaigneuse de l’effet et intensément poétique.La capacité à sortir des sentiers battus de la médiatisation fait partie des grandes qualités du Festival Chopin, qui n’hésite pas à inviter des artistes ignorés des autres organisateurs parisiens. Abse...

Pietro De Maria, on the other hand, belongs to the superior sphere level of performers who are conscious of the fact that the text takes precedence over everything else, as it belongs not only to the history of music, but to the tradition of performance. He is conscientious, analyses in depth, recreates the music with a naturalness of expression that is moving.Tre...

an artist’s notebook read by a musician in a state of grace...the union (which is truly that of the great musicians) of emotional depth and simplicity of expressionIt seems ...

Many  elements contribute to determining the  artistic and human stature of a musician, and there is only a fine line between that which increases it and that which diminishes it.  An excess of elegance becomes affectation, generosity turns into ostentation, virtuosity into exhibitionism, intelligence into obscurity, impetus into clamor and delicacy into mawkishness. Take all the positive qualities on this list and you have Pietro De Maria, a pianist of exceptional caliber.Many  elements con...

Pietro De Maria  offered an exemplary interpretation for the clarity of sound, the technical precision, the moved sensitiveness, the pearly and brilliant touch that sometimes reminded us of that of Maria Tipo.An extra...

De Maria has taken out the sugar without losing the sweetness. He emphasizes the crystalline melodiousness of operatic matrix without forgetting that sometimes it is sustained by an aggregation of unconventional chords.Gon...

The artist's range of tone colour and of structural understanding were outstanding, bringing this uncommonly interesting programme to a very fine conclusion.

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