BRAHMS: SERENADE NO. 1 op. 11 – SOUVENIR DE LA RUSSIE
DISCANTICA 323
« In 35 years of artistic partnership, the piano duo of Tiziana Moneta and Gabriele Rota has developed a profound understanding, evident when listening from many points of view, from the details of the phrasing to the timbre mixture and more generally in the all-domestic cordiality of their making music together. […] This 19th-century « Hausmusik » approach […] marries naturally with the relaxed atmospheres of the transcription of the Brahmsian Serenade in D n. 1 for orchestra, by the same author, of which you can breathe deeply all the melodic freshness. […] It is the same freshness of the Scherzo and of the final Rondo of the Serenade in D, played with ease in the rhythm as well as with extreme attention to timbre details, also obtained through a clever use of the pedal, always with the intent to avoid sounds of orchestral weight. Among the merits of this interpretation, in fact, there are precisely the mild sonorities and a discursiveness of authentic chamber music, also evident in the first movement of the Serenade, soft in timbre and serene in phrasing.The second movement is a timbral enchantment, the wide spans of the phrasing of the Adagio, set on a noble chaconne rhythm, have a particular charm and the following Minuet reveals itself to be an authentic delight.»
Luca Segalla, MUSICA – May 2023 [5 STELLE]
« … Finally, Brahms: the one proposed by the duo Moneta & Rota is a tribute to a form that is never rigid, squared, a Babel Tower that rises barren stone after stone, but which returns an innate ” singability ” which, moreover, in the concept of Serenade must never fail; if anything, the form that our duo erects over the six movements is transformed into an incessant research, into an exploration through which that process of sectoral construction materializes which the mature Brahms will erect as his own compositional altar. …»
Andrea Bedetti, MUSIC VOICE – RECORD OF THE MONTH APRIL 2023