“…Their ensemble is spot on, and there is a wonderful
flow to the music under their fingers…”
(American Record Guide)
2017 Global Music Awards Winner
Best Album, Best Emerging Artists, Best Duo
Lifetime - CD for Sheva Collection Label (Mozart, Rachmaninov and Barber)
« …Four magic hands for a piano… »
(SBS Australia)
« …Their two pianos recital will be long remembered… »
(Potchefstroom Herald, South African Newspaper)
« …Mozart’s Fantasy in F minor K608 is a musical miracle…
the Italian Duo interpreted this work with a impetus that transported us
immediately into the composer’s highest level of genius… »
(Paul Boekkooi, Beld, South African Newspaper)
« … an excellent recording by a young Italian piano duo winner of many
international chamber music competition… »
(Brilliant Classics)
« ...Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti, with utmost care and attention
to sound, precisely execute the contrapuntal game of variation no. 4,
carving out a finale which makes one feel as if he’s listening to an orchestra… »
(Luca Segalla, Musica, Italian Magazine, September 2015)
« …Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti are actually one of the most
interesting piano duo in Italy… »
(Monica Guerci, Il Giorno, Italian Newspaper)
« …the piano duo finds a very good balance, with utmost attention to
fluidity of mouvement and shows an architecture full of beautiful sounds… »
(Pierre Massé, Pianiste, French Magazine)
« …the first mouvement is very emotional, with this interpretation the two
players shows us the beauty of Brahms’s Sonata… »
(Marino Mora, Amadeus, Italian Music Magazine)
« …The duo Spina and Benignetti imbue the work’s clarion textures with a
series of lovely characterizations, of which the prized seventh variation –
grazioso – emanates an exquisite loveliness entirely appropriate to a seductive
siciliano… »
(Gary Lemco, Audiophile Audition, international online magazine)