Reviews

Sante Tursi - Reviews

“...Tursi is a musician with a very rich and vibrating inner being.
His interpretations are charming for the technical brilliance, and show us a mind and a heart inflaming “fire” in the music, ever played with true sharing...
I have no difficulty in confess that Tursi’s performance of Granada by Albeniz moved me as much as the interpretation of the great Segovia!”

(La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno-Italy)

“...Sante Tursi played the Sonata “Homage to Boccherini” by Castelnuovo-Tedesco with refined elegance, true feeling and inspiration...”

(La Nazione-Italy)

“...the remarkable presence of the guitarist Sante Tursi was one of the most exciting in the “XVII Festival Internacional Cervantino”...the Sonata by A. Ginastera, “Elogio de la danza” by L. Brouwer and the Studies by H. Villa-Lobos were some of the works that we listened; they were played with the sensibility and the refined technique that belong only to a master...”

(Memoria del XVII Festival Internacional Cervantino-Mexico)

“...music lovers that listened to Sante Tursi, soloist of the “Bellas Artes” chamber orchestra, received a wonderful present...the audience tributed to the italian artist a long standing ovation...”

(Diario de México)

CD REVIEWS

“...this recording has a great worth both for the importance of the performed works and for the excellent interpretation...Sante Tursi’s Valse performance demonstrates great elegance bringing out the mexican soul melted with that typically french “finesse d’esprit”, that Ponce had been breathing in Paris.
All is present in this recording; the attention to the typical phrasing of the mexican composer;...the admirable ability to control virtuosity for a controlled and wise performance, always complying with the directions of the score...this CD gives us another moment of exceptional strength, the D major Suite...Tursi is very attentive to the different nuances and very accurate in sound choosing.
This is a recording that has to be presented with great emphasis both for his great musicological value and for the exceptional interpretation.”

(William D’Arrigo - CD Classica)

“...The movements of the D major Suite are played by Tursi with effervescent sound, appropriate sensitivity and transparency...Performance is easy and very careful about technical details...The performance of ”Folia de España” variations is outstanding.
“Tursi is an incisive performer of XX century music.”

(Gianluca Marino - Guitart)

“...Sante Tursi’s performance is very good and he has express the beauty of this music with very good style.”

(Marco Riboni – Amadeus)

“...Tursi is a sensitive musician and you feel he has much in common with the nature of Ponce himself... Tursi turns the Variations on “Folia de España” and Fugue in a good performance that is unfailingly musical, alive to all possibilities... Sante Tursi’s brand of intense musicality is rewarding.”

(Colin Cooper - Classical Guitar)

“... a demonstration of how good the guitar can sound in chamber music... The musicians play with utter commitment; they put these works in a new light...The Kreutzer Trio receives a lustrous performance... Good tempi, sensitive playing, spirit and vivacity bring out the very best in this music... The highest recommendation.”

(Colin Cooper - Classical Guitar)