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El Crisol de Ciudad Real
CLEAVING THE SEAS OF SOUND WITH FOUR HANDS
Time is a vast sea full of underwater currents that at times rock us and at others dash us against the rocks. Amid this shipwreck, music turns immersion into a magical dance, a harmonious balsam that can alleviate loss and transform time into a place which, though still mysterious, seems a little more human.
Yesterday, in the Marcos Redondo Conservatory, the sound of the piano tamed this savage force and had us floating on the waves of time as if the sea no longer existed, as if it had only been created in order to become a melody. The ones to bewitch us in this fashion were Victor and Luis del Valle, brother pianists who interwove their mastery as performers with four hands.
El Mundo - Madrid
TWO PIANOS TO EXCITE YOU
G/U/CAMPUS
The Del Valle brothers, Víctor and Luis, only need two pianos to prove that music really can express feeling. This young performing duo (aged 30 and 27 respectively) has already received the highest praise from the world press. Last Monday, as part of the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the "Unidad Editorial Conferencia y Formación", they delighted the public that attended the concert held in the "Teatros del Canal" in Madrid.
"Prodigious", "innovative", "virtuosi",... The Del Valle brothers have become one of the most outstanding examples of young musical talent in Europe.
La Voz de Asturias - Oviedo
Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos served to show of the oustanding qualities of conductor García Calvo as well as a captivating interpretation of the piece by brothers Víctor & Luis del Valle, two notable pianists who played the work in a convincing and wholehearted style, truly infectious and provocative: all of which was continued in their encore versions of Lutoslawski variations on a theme by Paganini for two pianos, as well as their rousing performance of Milhaud's Brasileira from the Scaramouche suite.
Ideal.es - Granada
Pianists Victor and Luis del Valle, born in Velez-Malaga (Malaga, Spain), have been awarded the Audience Award at the twenty-first edition of the Central European Music Festival in the Slovak city of Zilina, considered one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in Central Europe.
This festival gathers each year top-class young artists of the European music scene, artists who have won prizes in outstanding competitions. Among the participants in Zilina this year are the winners of events like Queen Elizabeth Contest in Brussels, the ARD in Munich, the Moscow Tchaikovsky or the Young Artists of New York.
The organizer of the event, the Music Centre Slovakia, is funded by the Ministry of Culture of that country and gives the event a double dimension: festival and competition.
This award adds to other previously received by these pianists, such as the ARD International Music Competition (Munich, 2005), the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition ("Audience Award". Miami, 2008) and the International Piano Duo Competition Bialystok (Poland, 2008), and consolidates the more than brilliant career of this piano duo in our country and their projection abroad.
REVISTA DE MÚSICA "scherzo"
COMMEMORATING CHOPIN
Auditorium Higher Conservatory (Córdoba)
The 9th Rafael Orozco Piano Festival was opened by a performance by the magnificent duo made up of the brothers Victor and Luis del Valle, indisputably one of the best to represent us on the international stage.
...extremely attractive programme in which the most outstanding performance was that of John Corigliano's Chiaroscuro. This is a work in which the particular luminosity of the piano's sound is notable. The pianists shone in Gershwin's Fantasia on "Porgy and Bess", achieving a wonderful display of mutual rhythmic understanding.
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