Machiel Swillens, Luister
What a marvellous CD! Giorgini makes her Bösendorfer pray, cry and sing. With an incredible feeling for structure she stretches big arches from one piece to the other, she understands the art of making the sounds become liquid and let the magic float weightlessly around the room. (…)
Diapason
On a splendid Bösendorfer, Saskia Giorgini delivers a realization of Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses in which her constantly inspired playing is carried by an emotional fervour.
The rich sound of the Dutch-Italian pianist, winner of the Salzburg Mozart Competition in 2016, contributes to the understanding of this unfairly neglected opus.
The suave Ave Maria and the lamenting Andante Lagrimoso strike here with their magnificent interiority, whose climate makes one think irresistibly of Fauré.
The Hymne de l’enfant à son reveil sings with a penetrating sweetness, the Pensée des morts, more prophetic and hallucinated than ever, takes us to a frightening dimension. Funérailles never crush us under their weight but sing with infinite poetry, the Cantique d’amour sounds ideally glorious. The spiritual peak is reached with Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude. How Saskia Giorgini plays it with truly divine intimacy! A simple and sensitive vision of this essential masterpiece of the Lisztian piano was missing. We have it today.
Natasha Loges, BBC Music Magazine
Colin Clarke, International Piano
Franck Mallet, Musikzen.fr
“Saskia Giorgini en totale osmose avec l’esprit Lamartinien de la partition”
“Superbe”
Aart van der Wal, Opus Klassiek
As a matter of fact, her Liszt is simply stunning. Unfortunately, this beautiful music does not always sound this radiant, this expressive and so richly varied. Giorgini’s lyrical signature is just as impressive (perhaps overwhelming is a better word) as the technical allure of her playing. Exuberance and stillness, virtuoso rhetoric and deeply felt contemplation: Giorgini apparently does not hesitate in this enchanting and catchy recital in which magic is highly regarded. And these are truly colossal pieces, both in terms of pianistics and content, with the absolute ‘outliers’ being III Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, IV Pensée des morts and VII Funérailles. The Bösendorfer 280VC (why do we hear so little of the instruments of this famous piano builder?) is beautifully captured. No less than 85 minutes of pure beauty on one CD. Unbelievable.
Dana Cristescu, Hotnews.ro
The moment of maximum delight, not a shock, is still the winner of the Mozart Competition, Salzburg, 2016, with the interpretation of Fantasy for piano and orchestra by George Enescu, given to us by Saskia Giorgini. An exceptional pianist.
Lavinia Coman
(…) pianist Saskia Giorgini competed on the solo part, integrating harmoniously into the fabric of the symphonic ensemble. To the roars of prolonged applause, the artist responded with an emotional supplement, the lied by Rachmaninov In the Silence of the Mysterious Night, in the inspired transcription of the soloist.