Marco Frei · PIANONews · 1 January 2022
Visions – Suites for Piano
Her latest album should not have been called «Visions» but, like her own composition, «Mediterranea». For these are essentially Mediterranean-hued sonorities, which in Maria Gabriella Mariani's playing take shape as a coherent narrative. […] The key to this homogeneous whole is her interpretation, born of the spirit of improvisation.
Extract translated from German
A review of Visions – Suites for Piano (Da Vinci Classics) in PIANONews, the magazine of the German publisher Staccato-Verlag, issue 1/2022. The Italian composer and pianist, the writer notes, «effortlessly makes the works of Debussy, Poulenc and Prokofiev act as a self-contained sound world», while her own composition «gathers essential tendencies of the three great masters».
