Abstracts from Reviews and Critics
europeAN AND AMERICAN REVIEWS
" Collegium Pro Musica plays the card of the vitality at the same time open to the light, to the significance of the written notes, to the virtuosistic musicality of the writing. Each musician reacts with talent to these forgotten pages, breathes insolence and rigour, the soul and the nostalgia of the slowest passages. The homogeneity of the group, the dreamy ineffability of their joyful attacks directly strikes our ear.”
Répertoire, P. Demeure (France)

"Thanks to Stefano Bagliano the recorder played at school has been raised to the standing of true instrument! One listens to it in the softness of its expressions in the virtuosity of its “arpeggi”……Bagliano offers its nature of nobleness to the recorder."
Nice Matin, A. P. (France)

" Stefano Bagliano, the founder of the group, is a flautist, but not a flautist like the others. Its agility is extraordinary in the execution of the fastest passages. The piquées notes, the melodic variations, the inflections with the inimitable nuances seem to be just a joke for Stefano Bagliano…… concert placed under the sign of an authentic talent . . . .”
Le Meridional, C. Taelman (France)

". …it is not enough to come from Italy for well interpreting the music of over there: one needs talent and style. And ought to say that the three instrumentalists are not lacking of them. . . . . Pro Musica from Italy was a wonderful discovery for the majority, the sun too was in the bags of the players"
Le Contadin, J. Bonnaux (France)

". Stefano Bagliano…… under its fingers the recorder reaches its true dimension and competes without any problem with its rival the flute. The virtuosity of the interpreter doesn’t need to be showed, all seems to be easy, and its instrument offers to us as many sonorities of an extreme purity……but this technique is devoted to a delicate musical quality, it serves a really beautiful “fraseggio”, that allows to give these works all the life and brightness they need… Collegium Pro Musica, three young musicians of already established talent, which made us travel in the fastes and the poetry of the Italian baroque music "
La Gazette Provencale, D. Duché (France)

“...The central focus of this recording is the musicality of Stefano Bagliano....Bagliano’s ability to play musically and to communicate through his small orchestra wonderful details of Telemann’s music is clear...”
American Record Guide, Brewer (USA)

"…The performances of Stefano Bagliano are delightful, expressive in slow movements and particularly happy in Marcello' s sunny quicker movements, where his nimble virtuosity yields constant pleasure…"
Fanfare, B. Robins (USA)

"…the Collegium Pro Musica, led by Stefano Bagliano, a fluid recorderist …"
American Recorder, B. Dunham (USA)

“The Collegium Pro Musica has impressed me……they produce some splendid playing that obviously delights…”
Fanfare, B. Robins (USA)

“…Bagliano has the technique necessaire to carry off this program…”
Goldberg, T. Moore (USA)

"…Collegium Pro Musica produces vigorous performances……There is much to enjoy in their playing.”
Early Music, E. Cross (England)

“…the interpretation is extremly succeeded, brilliant and shows the Cremonese Merula in the right light..”
Alte Musik Aktvell, R. Strobl ( Germany)

"…The soloist flutist (Stefano Bagliano) dominates all the pieces…"
Classic Heute, K. P. Richter (Germany)

“…Collegium pro Musica from Genova: intensive and emotional sound „
Siegener Zeitung (Germany)

  
italian REVIEWS
“Stefano Bagliano is capable to give to its flute voice and the registers of a “Primadonna”
CD Classica, A. Zignani

“The Suite starts with a French Ouverture……the way the Collegium Pro Musica plays staccato the frenzy of the dynamic burst is breathtaking.. . . . . . in this Telemann history becomes pure song.“
CD Classica, A. Zignani

" The instrumental virtuosism has the right degree of elegance stolen to the vocality.. . . . . it is worth the impeccable affability of the whole, the grace and the proportion. Qualities we can find in the confidence of the flautist Stefano Bagliano.. . . . The ensemble Collegium Pro Musica is to be pointed out ".
Amadeus, N. S.

“We can listen to the Telemann’s A minor suite from two recordings separated by thirty years … the execution of Bagliano does not have anything to envy to the Bruggen’s one, on the contrary it is, in modern times, for some aspects more reliable”
Orfeo, G. Nalin

“… Emma Kirkby is symbol of an interpretative absolute excellence civilization .... . careful and sensitive the performance of Bagliano and his Collegium, as in the very punctual support to the singing that in the binding completion of the program, in which Bagliano has played as soloist, showing easy virtuosity, dialoguing immediacy, beautiful development of the phrasing. ”
Il Secolo XIX, E. Rosasco

"…concert held from three skilled performers.. . . . they face the ancient repertoir with rigour, but also with fantasy. . . . no academy, but a stimulating and full of color reading, suitable to the solar music of the “Serenissima””
La Nazione, S. Ragni

“…The soprano Emma Kirkby, splendid protagonist of the evening with the baroque ensemble of the Collegium pro Musica directed by the flautist Stefano Bagliano .... deligthful reading for colour, phrasing, good balance in the sound, expressive participation…"
La Repubblica, R. Iovino


“ …Bagliano and Bronzi are in possession of a full technical and instrumental mastery that reveals the endowment of the bent, but above all the merit of a very solid training…both reveal thier musicality in a refinement and a property fruits of a considerable and careful job of deepening and interpretative maturity "
L'Eco di Bergamo, G.Gonella

". . always respected executions, as for the full of temperament Stefano Bagliano."
Il Giornale, A. Cantù

“ . the flute of Bagliano resulted of a shining beauty. . . spectacular virtuosism. . . greatest technical mastery. . . . excellent breath.”
Bresciaoggi, L. Fertonani

" Telemann’s A minor suite for recorder and strings: the soloist Stefano Bagliano faced it with brilliance and fluidity, well supported from the other strumentisti "
La Stampa, R. Iovino

". . excellent recording. . . it needs to listen to believe and to enjoy oneself, as the flute of Stefano Bagliano shines how much is necessary. . . . compliments to the artistic direction!
Musica, E. Gavezzotti

"…the wonderful Sonata BWV 1020 by J.S. Bach… winning test of maestria and harmony appreciates some brani to you of G. Jacob for flauto straight and pianoforte.. . Warmest the consents and the two bis. "
Il Messaggero del Lunedi, R.d.T.

"… happiest the emission and the expressiveness of the sound, always without slobbers, from part of Bagliano, protagonist of precious executions and vibrating."
Il Secolo XIX, S. Ca.

“…real buttonhole flower was Stefano Bagliano that with his virtuosity delighted the public…
La Nuova Basilicata (Potenza), A. Corbo

“Stefano Bagliano is part of this category of “virtuosi” of the recorder……with high with disinvoltura it has faced impegnative and virtuosistic pages…”
La Provincia (Lecco), R. Zambonini

"…Bagliano, the flautist, played with extreme accuracy of “fraseggio”, linked to a natural instrumental virtuosism."
Il Giornale di Bergamo, A. Br.

“….wonderful the concert of Collegium Pro Musica………high quality execution.”
Il Tempo (Campobasso)

 
 
  
     
     

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