‘We were ready for them. And they came with the expected success that goes with them [...] the wait to witness a full concert with them was worth it.’
Málagahoy
‘Smashing, but not breaking, these wonderful artists respect style and technique but state clearly their own voice, young and bold, full of life and humour, expressive and highly musical.’
La Provincia. Diario de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
‘Splendid and masterful virtuosity, unprecedented risk, exceptional style become one in these two musicians […] One hears works of Mozart very few times in such a convincing way.’
Stuttgarter Zeitung
‘A prodigy: audible beauty and virtuosity in their exceptional innovation of piano skill.’
El País
‘They made two pianos sound like the Wiener Philharmoniker’
Panamá América- Epasa
OCNE and Mena with a well chosen programme.
Published by: Gonzalo Alonso. December 4th, 2017.
OCNE Season.
Mena (director) with a well chosen programme. Works by Bartok and Orff. Luis and Víctor del Valle, pianos. Juanjo Guillem, percussion. Rafa Gálvez, percussion. Jane Archibald, soprano. Juan Antonio Sanabria, tenor. Adrian Ërod, baritone. Young Singers from the Community of Madrid. National Orchestra and Choir. Juanjo Mena, director. National Auditorium. Madrid, December 2nd, 2017. "Sold out" posters to promote that the OCNE gets in several of its last concerts what all musical organizations crave.
It was a real pleasure listening to the coordinated and enthusiastic interpretation of this concert by its piano players and percussionists, also by the orchestra, although its mission was merely to be a chamber music background to the four soloists by extending timbres. Mena understood this, barely accepting to receive only a part of the great round of applause, which forced an "encore" from the soloists.
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