“A refined interpreter”
Paolo Carradori, Il Giornale della Musica, April 2019
“In a performance of rare concentration, dry, crystalline, the poetry of the piece explodes, zen Space, mirror play, where the mesmerizing repetition of a sweet suspended phrase moves deep down.”
Paolo Carradori, Alfabeta2, September 22nd, 2017
“She managed to bewitch the audience not just by means of the skillful refinement of her touch, but also through her witty irony. Over one hour and an half of a great, simply magic concert, a confirmation of a unique attention and passion for Sound!”
Luca D’Agostino, Instart, August 8th, 2018
“Agnese Toniutti is an anti-virtuoso pianist. She takes John Cage’s very well-known pieces and reveals them to us. We weren’t used to think of him this way.”
Mario Gamba, Il Manifesto, September 21st, 2017
“A wonderful evening with an extraordinary Agnese, intense and concentrated. A really engaging concert, thank you very much”
Irmela Heimbacher, President of Isabella Scelsi Foundation, Rome, January 8th, 2019
“Congratulations again for last Saturday’s concert. It was one of the most beautiful concerts I have ever listened to. Everything was so intense, appropriate, partecipated with sweetness and flame, beautiful to see and to hear.”
Composer Giancarlo Cardini, Florence, December 3rd, 2018
“Agnese Toniutti delivered a stunning solo piano recital that explored the sonic possibilities of the instrument „beyond its body” as described in the program…showed exceptional sensitivity and insight in her selection of the pieces. As a result, a fascinating dialogue emerged…”
Monika Zyla, Glissando Magazine after MaerzMusik recital in Berlin, June 3rd, 2023
“…two great performers of the contemporary music scene, the American Frances-Marie Uitti with her legendary aluminum cello, the Friulian pianist Agnese Toniutti, gave in the Sala Grande of Palazzo Pico to a large, attentive and participating audience a concert that we will not easily forget. […] Of considerable emotional impact is the excerpt from La Passion selon Sade, Bussotti’s masterpiece work, where Toniutti admirably punctuates the cello’s poignant progress by creating, developing a constant tension. […] The juxtaposition with the piano solo on Via del Fico by Giancarlo Cardini proves tantalizing. Cardini, too, is a profound investigator of sound, of detail; he does this admirably by using melody, so much mistreated by the avant-garde, dilating it, fleshing it out, inserting sudden contrasts, cracks, wounds. Like few, Toniutti knows how to enter the Tuscan composer’s repertoire and proves it amply once again. [..]”
Paolo Carradori, Il Giornale della Musica, October 2021
CD REVIEWS
Lento Trascolorare – Da Vinci Classics 2020
Subtle Matters – Neuma Records 2021
Sonatas&Interludes – Neuma Records 2023
