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[...] "Matteo Corio must, above all, be credited for having recognised and exalted the secret elective affinities that link these two composers and these two sonatas on the basis of the common purpose of self-mirroring that which is most noble and solid that has been produced by musical art in the past. His mastery of the instrument and the conscientiousness with which he wished to emphasise, both in Brahms and in Medtner, the persistence of the same architectonic and formal tension, which far from weakening after the delays in an oasis of bewitching harmonic vastness and colourist novelty (especially the performance of the Andante in the first gives us moments of transfixing beauty) seems to grow admirably, is particularly convincing in his interpretation. Just as our perplexity facing the too univocal definitions of that which should be defined as classical, romantic or neo-classical continues to grow - every time the pages of Maestros who operated in a stylistic regime of permanent transition are re-proposed to us in a cautious and sensitive performance like this one by Corio." (from the Cd's notes by musicologist Giovanni Guanti).