“I have already dealt with the Cosenza pianist Ingrid Carbone, when reviewing this magazine, already on the occasion of the release of her album dedicated to Liszt, again for Da Vinci Classics, and when she let me know that she was about to record the op. 90 & the op. 94 by Schubert on a Bechstein piano, I thought it was a gamble, a challenge that could have had, from a timbral and phrasing point of view, an unsatisfactory outcome given that the mechanics of this instrument do not guarantee the “fluidity” necessary for tackle and make the most of these pages, as happens instead with a Steinway or a Fazioli.”

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