Alessandro Cammarano · Le Salon Musical · 9 October 2021
CD: Maria Gabriella Mariani's «Visions»
In «Visions» the pianist and composer Maria Gabriella Mariani ennobles eclecticism — here understood as the interpenetration of forms apparently unconnected yet intrinsically bound together — and does so to a degree of absolute perfection. […] The performances are marked by a sunlit luminosity in which the phrasing dissolves into a palette of colours always finely balanced between rigour and imagination.
Extract translated from Italian
A review of the album Visions – Suites for Piano (Da Vinci Classics, 2021). The writer describes the programme as an ideal journey running from Russia to the Mediterranean by way of France, and dwells on Mediterranea, the suite Mariani composed herself: «Of great interest are the three pages written and performed by Mariani, who takes her place in the long line of women pianist-composers.» Translated from the Italian.
