Aquiles Delle Vigne
Reviews
…Only a few pianists can go from a sparkling Mendelssohn (Double Concerto for piano and Violin, with Alberto Lysy and Lord Yehudi Menuhin) to a thundering Liszt (12 Etudes d’Exécution Trancendente) while passing an aristocratic, sophisticated and charming Ravel… (Gaspard de la Nuit and Miroirs)
Harold Schoenberg, The New York Times
…From silence till steed power… (De Falla’s Fantasia Bética, Liszt’s Dante Sonate, C minor Polonaise and Brahms’s F minor Sonate)
SVZ Salzburger Volkszeitung, Salzburg
…Aquiles Delle Vigne, fantastic pianist and artist, impossible to be compared… (Debussy’s Préludes)
Pierre-Petit, Le Figaro, Paris
…In every sense, a Master recital. He moved on to twilight recital’s major section with Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and Miroirs. This was a splendid playing, grappling with phenomenal technique in Alborada del gracioso, Ondine and Scarbo… It was an engrossing exhibition of how to realise the brilliant colour of Ravel’s passage of virtuosity…
Clive 0’Connell, The Age, Melbourne
…Great monument to Beethoven’s and Schubert’s Sonates… Transcendent artist and sublime pianist…Monolithic Beethoven’s op. 111… Schubert’s D. 960 dramatic, grandiose and phenomenal virtuosity…
Lluis Trullén, ABC, Barcellone
…In Aquiles Delle Vigne piano meets its master. Amazing Liszt’s Sonate in b minor! The performance was a full demonstration of control of the music and bend it to his will… Full of sound and fury… The 24 Préludes, by Chopin, with noble and grandiose conception… Great moment of pure Music…
Charles Branning, Caller Times, Forth Worth Star-Telegram
…During the Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, Aquiles Delle Vigne played with a formidable interpretation, powerful and dramatic… He is able to galvanise all the virtuosity problems and give us a show of his stupendous and incredible abilities…
Maria Teresa Castrillon, El Heraldo de Mexico
…A prince of the piano… (Beethoven’s Sonates op. 57 and op. 111 and Piazzolla Tangos)
La Repubblica, Rome
…Grand Seigneur of Pianists… (Debussy’s Préludes)
PRS, Rheinische Post
…Aquiles Delle Vigne plays with the sound of a Symphonic Orchestra. His style is vigorous, robust, with conviction and without any doubt… (Beethoven’s Eroica Variationen and Chopin’s Second Sonate)
Courant Telegraaf, Den Haag
…Pianist grandiose…
Franz den Herder, Leider Dagblad
…Like his master Claudio Arrau, Aquiles Delle Vigne plays with a noble, inspired and sublime style: with fluid interior and passionate colour… (Mozart’s C minor and Schumann’s C majeur Fantaisies) Memorable Liszt’s Sonate!: passion, force, tension, transcendental virtuosity, power, conviction and above all noblesse…
Alfred Hoffmann, Actualitatea Muzicala, Bucaresti
…Sublime Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto…
O Globo, Rio de Janeiro
…Overwhelming Liszt’s Second Concerto, grandiose interpretation. Octaves and thirds with meteoric clarity…
Enrique Hernandez, La Prensa, Buenos Aires
…Aquiles Delle Vigne, powerful and mercurial pianist… Magic, marvellous Ravel… (Miroirs) Impressive Mussorgski… (Pictures) Other four ‘encores’, in the line of the great ‘Romantik’ of the piano…
Nini Ganguzza, La Sicilia, Teatro Massimo
…Aquiles Delle Vigne, real giant of the piano…
Pieter Van Heen, Muziekjournaal, Den Haag
…Liszt’s fire for Delle Vigne’s passion… (Liszt’s Concerto N° 2)
Fulvia Conter, Giornale de Brecia
…Real sublime during the Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the National Orchestra and Georges Octors… Steel structure and spirit…
Alice Libert, La Libre Belgique
…Exciting and exalted Beethoven’s Fantasia for Piano, Chœur and Orchestra… virtuosity, temperament, overwhelming…
Magdalène Cotte, La semaine musicale d’Anvers
…Aquiles Delle Vigne and Alberto Lysy, at Menuhin Festival in Gstadt, full pianistic noblesse, ‘Seigneurs de la Musique’… (Ravels’s integral for piano and violin)
Der Bund, Bern
…Aquiles Delle Vigne, world-class pianist, began the Concerto and put the listeners into spell. It was absolutely magic… His technique was obviously grandiose and impeccable… A performance to remember… (Beethoven’s Concerti N° 3 and N° 4)
Natchar Pancharoen, Bangkok News
…Aquiles Delle Vigne, temperament and passion to serve the Music…
Jacques Steheman, Le Soir
…Prodigieuse interpretation of the De Falla’s Fantasia Bética…
A.B.C., Madrid