Reviews

Pietro De Maria’s complete works of Chopin continues (he is the only Italian who has performed the complete works in live concerts: hurrah!) one cycle after another, each one honoured with the same natural approach, sincerity and poetic simplicityConsisten...

Que dire ? Devant un tel miracle de musique et de piano on pourrait être un instant tenté de faire virevolter les laudatifs...On avait été emballé par les disques ; on s’avoue littéralement stupéfait par l’interprétation que l’artiste vénitien donne d’un programme allant de l’Opus 12 (les Variations brillantes sur « Je vends des scapulaires ») jusqu’aux Etudes opus 25Que dire ? Devant un tel miracle de musique et de piano on pourrait être un instant tenté de faire virevolter les laudatifs. Ce ser...

The elegant pianist, Pietro De Maria, lacks neither virtuosity nor delicacy, and his passion does wonders in the third movement [of Schumann’s Concerto op.54], superbly eloquentThe elega...

Once more, and to an even greater extent than before, you are made aware of a well-nigh flawless marriage of creator and re-creator, of composer and interpreterVol...

De Maria plays Chopin with an elegance that never degenerates into a pure exertion of style, into the ornamental charm of a generic approach, but on the contrary points straight at the structural and emotional heart of the musicAft...

The Konzertstück and the Introduction and Allegro found a penetrating and rapt interpreter in Pietro De MariaObscured...

the Marche funèbre seems sliding toward a void, a gesture of resignation, almost posthumous with respect to the dramaThe struct...

Once again his playing stuns and impresses – a rare amalgam of mastery, poetic daring and integrityVolume 3 ...

A consistency of thought which is the hallmark of great interpreters of ChopinNot...

They are...interpretations of great personality, which denote a maturity able to present, with full awareness, an original character. It is especially to the Ballades...that De Maria restores lyrical scope and also narrative sense with blazing intensityA p...