...intelligent interpretations from the Juilliard-trained, award-winning duo of Mattia Zappa and Massimiliano Mainolfi...(Joanne Talbot)
...poetic interpretations, ironic accents and great ensemble !(Reinhard Schulz)
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...the Bravos from the audience meant to ask them "Please more !"...(Joscha Schaback)
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Neue Luzerner Zeitung (8.04.2004)
...the interpretation, with expressivity and pathos , was perfectly balanced...
original reviewWolfsburger Nachrichten (22.11.2006)
...their playing was a great musical experience...(Angelika Kannenberg)
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Die Beeld - Johannesburg (1.3.2007)
DUO IMPRESSIVE
The Italian Duo of Mattia Zappa (Cello) and Massimiliano Mainolfi (Piano) is a formidable team which shares talent and musical personalities, making music with equal passion. Their program choice was refreshingly original because it did exclude the habitual repertory in favour of lesser known works from the Romantics and the 20th Century. (...)
original reviewPretoria News (1.3.2007)
...ebullient inventiveness coupled to exemplary technique...
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Ensemble Magazine (15.08.2008)
...an excellent Album !
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Pizzicato (15.08.2008)
...Mattia Zappa and Massimiliano Mainolfi are genial performers...
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Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue (20.10.2008)
Zappa and Mainolfi prove fine exponents of its thrusting, vigorous momentum, which recurs in the invigorating finale of the Second (1941).”
Darmstadt Echo (2.11.2009)
The Duo Zappa.Mainolfi makes one out of two instruments...
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