Highlights
Highlights
ACCENTUS DEBUT CD
#SHARP MAGAZINE
NEAMT PIANO FESTIVAL
artisticDirector : DanielCiobanu
2nd Prize and Public Prize " Arthur Rubinstein" International Piano Competition
1st Prize "BNDES" International Piano Competition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016
Private Recital for his Royal Highness "Prince Charles" Duke of Rothesay at Dumfries House , Scotland
13th UNISA International Piano Competition Winner
+the special prize of "The Best Classical Sonata"
CD Reviews
CD Reviews
Musically, the pianist's unconditional will to narrate is gripping, and with this technical ability, nothing seems to stand in the way. Music becomes an experience with Daniel Ciobanu.’’
Jonas Zerweck
“The way the young Romanian pianist plays on this eponymous disc forces you to take him seriously. Original, energetic, lively, reflective, melancholic, suspended and unstoppable - these are just a few impressions. Listening to it reminds you that refinement, depth, emotional artistic interpretation and aesthetic pleasure are not disposable whims. These are values that resist both the relativistic assault of post modernism and the wasteland laid bare by the virus.”
Mihai Cojocaru
“Liszt’s music thus does not become a hollow pianism, but a meaningful and passionate music, which is also technically played with a phenomenal transparency.
So we can conclude that, with his first CD, Daniel Ciobanu gives a very impressive account of his pianistic and interpretative skills.”
Remy Frank
“An exceptional record and a sensational debut, in the context of a pandemic that for Daniel Ciobanu meant reaching a degree of artistic maturity that recommends him as one of the great artists of our times.”
Cristina Comandasu
“Yet, while his playing is undeniably exciting, he never surrenders to the urge to dazzle or show off at the expense of the music. This is a splendid account overall then, very much in contention with the finer performances on record.”
Robert Cummings
“What sulphurous colors, what epic ardor contained in a perfect style, what entrance where the piano opens a thunderous precipice, and what art of singing in the shadows, in the reduction of the sound, when Beatrice appears in her dreamy nimbus. This Dante, on a par with Benedek Horváth's, can without blinking a glance in her eyes the journey to hell where Claudio Arrau burned his piano.”
“Ciobanu reaches an almost meditative, spiritual level with his selection of six preludes from the first album of preludes for piano by Claude Debussy.
The highlight of this recording is the almost 20-minute character piece "Fantasia quasi Sonata" from the collection Années de pèlerinage by Franz Liszt, in which Dante's Inferno and the implied sufferings are played vividly.”
Markus Gründig