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Simon Zhu is the young winner of the Paganini competition 2023 and in today’s concert he demonstrates all its technical excellence. But before a review of the performance a praise should be attributed to the pianist Simone Rugani. Unlike many other pianists in duo, Rugani did not perform as if he were a soloist, avoiding to overpower the sound of the violin but trying to get a perfect sound amalgam with the result of enhancing the pieces performed. Beginning with Beethoven’s delicate sonata, certainly the most valuable performance of the evening, without the muscular performances of the other pieces. Paganini’s whims could have been just studies lacking the musical value in favor of a muscular execution forgetting that these are  pieces with a musical meaning. Very interesting the piece by Colasanti that combines paganinian reminiscences with a modern setting. Certainly of lesser value is the performance of the great late sonata of Schumann where all the pathos of the composer of Zwickau was neglected in favor of a virtuoso setting and in which there was no sound fusion with the piano. A little matured performance of a difficult sonata but full of ideas completely neglected. Not to be taken into account the variations of Wieniawski, a sound mush to put immediately into oblivion and that do not speak in favour of  the sensitivity of the violinist. A good audience success and an encore.

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