Reviews

"...De Maria...displayed an impressive range of touch and articulation...an evening of mature music making from a highly accomplished artist."Pietro De Maria is a winner of a number of international piano competitions and he is the first Italian pianist to have r...

"...De Maria, just back from the ordeal of playing the complete piano works of Chopin, both in concert halls and in recording sessions, and now embarked on an equally absorbing adventure with Bach, played with great consistency, extremely daring in the awesome octaves and eloquent in the lighter lines (magnificent the spectral  episode in the middle of the Andantino)..."Tchaikovsky’s First Co...

"...De Maria is never mechanical or rigid: Bach’s music palpitates like that of the romantics, but without slipping into an anachronistic style: a balance between discipline and expression that recalls the great interpreters of the past, like Gieseking or Arrau. And every time I hear him, De Maria’s refined and vigorous style reminds me of them. He is, perhaps, unique in his classicism, among the pianists who are popular today."Pietro De Maria is among the best of the middle age...

"...The interpretation of the pianist Pietro De Maria was, to say the least, exceptional. . .In the Fugues De Maria usually highlights the parts with unspeakable clarity, in short, a lesson in style and “analysis” in the true sense of the word. . .and a  myriad of details are brought to light, an incredible number of elements that are not at all secondary and usually do not emerge . . .and. . .the quality of the sound . . .which is only and exclusively De Maria’s touch, no tricks with “predisposed” mechanisms, specifically adjusted to drive down the keys . . .De Maria’s merit is to have made clear that in the Well-Tempered Klavier lies the root of all piano music from Beethoven to Brahms and beyond…"

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"...De Maria displays a first-rate legato, softens the dynamic contrasts, creates continual reverberations between the timbre of the melody and that of the accompaniment partly through a use of the pedal which it is no exaggeration to call virtuosity..."One...

A microcosm that Pietro De Maria faces after eight recordings and the astute practice of performing the complete piano works of the Polish composer not only on record, but live on stage. And this is entirely an assetHe ...

De Maria does not present, as other musicians do an imitation of the harpsichord. His acute idea is to revisit Bach in the light of the composers who have been his heirs...Inspiration and mental concentration coexist masterfully in this pianist.VEN...

"...the conclusion of an exciting voyage begun five years ago with a prestigious recording of the Etudes..."In time ...

What prevails is the transfiguration of the idea of homeland, woven of a varied range of feelings of nostalgia, of tenderness, of anger and  despair, which make the Polonaise a genre, if not the genre, definitively associated with Chopin. And so, for De Maria, an ideal ground for comparison. All we need to do is listen to the way he lures out the song, even in the most peremptory Polonaises, and how the sound ranges from an almost catatonic level to surges of madness. In between are all the shades of a dream.One more record and th...

This is a performance which reveals not only attention to the text and its precise indications, but also a perfect understanding of the various aspects of Chopin’s poetics, which find a rare consistency of form and character in four creations which share one rhythm but remain unique in their significance and their esthetic value.Chopin’s ...