Reviews

With technical perfection and a triumphant symphonic gesture, but also with a breath of elegiac meditationWIE...

Pietro De Maria’s performance was among the best we have ever heard under every aspect of the pianistic interpretation... A pianist who can play the Ballades in such a way immediately takes his place among the best we have ever heardSANTIAGO....

In Liszt’s Sonata he displayed not only brilliant technique, which allows him to risk facing great masses of sound, but also excellent analytic ability... It is not often that we hear the Sonata played in such a meaningful and modern wayBAD KISSI...

The Italian pianist began the first Ballade with a surety of purpose and a ravishing tonal palette. Coupled with his immaculate phrasing and the beauty of his sound was the effective understatement he achieved by not pushing things to excessMIA...

A splendid performance both from a pianistic and from a musical standpoint, justly acclaimed with great enthusiasmAAC...

Pietro De Maria showed himself to be a supreme acrobat of the keyboard, far from every overemphatic romanticism, with great scopePie...

Pietro De Maria resolves each passage with authoritative self-assurance, style, maturity of expression, fluid technique. And above all, with estreme elegance. A poised composure in which we recognize the inspiration of the great Michelangeli, not only in the external forms of gestures and posture, but in the pursuit of a sensitive touch.A p...

You need an almost athletic performance besides talent and technical and interpretative ability. You need a lot of gifts to face a program like the one Venetian pianist Pietro De Maria offered the audience of the Teatro Eden last ThursdayYou...

At this point, the program was over, but the audience did not want to leave this splendid artist. They were rewarded with no less than four encores... from a famous Etude by Chopin to a Sonata by Scarlatti, from a Prelude by Bach to an amazing interpretation of Liszt’s famous La Campanella, inspired by the Concerto of the same name by PaganiniOf course...

Sensitivity, taste, and musicality that spellbind the listener from the first note to the last. Those hands that move with confidence along the most dangerous passages offer no ostentation of virtuosity: everything is at the service of an intense, intimate expressivity capable – and this is the sign of the great interpreter – of filling the silence of the pauses with an intensity equal to that of the notesTURIN. It had b...