Music
«After his excellent album dedicated to Giovanni Zamboni, Simone Pansolin - moving effortlessly from the archlute to the baroque guitar - has now released a new album of the same level. His execution is truly imaginative and fascinating, his adaptability and freedom of phrasing showcased in it bring back all the poetry and magic of the baroque guitar.»
— M. Riboni, “Amadeus”
«I found Pansolin’s renditions of Roncalli’s music beautifully and elegantly rendered; the replica Baroque guitar shimmers in this lovely recording. This is charming music, exquisitely performed.»
— K. Meltzer, “Fanfare”
«Wonderful and amazingly played music.»
— G. Schamp, “De Belgische Luitacademie”
«An instrumental mastery of absolute importance, which is punctually matched by a coherent and never “over the top” interpretative vision. [...] A record that really deserves to be listened to.»
— G. Odero, “Il Fronimo”
«His playing is refined, almost self-effacing but he has a clear sense of how to bring out the best in it. […] He lingers lovingly over Roncalli’s gentle melodic lines in the allemandes and correnti, embellishing them with exquisite ornaments, but tosses off shorter gigues, minuets and gavottes with engaging insouciance.»
— M. Hall, “Lute News” (The Lute Society)
«A dreamy, poetic and meditative album.»
— M. Riboni, “Amadeus”
«Simone Pansolin gives these sonatas a wonderful, twinkling quality which makes them jewel-like.»
— B. Winkler, “SWR”
«Pansolin plays masterfully. […] I feel Zamboni would be pleased.»
— C. J. Arbuthnott, “Lute News” (The Lute Society)
«Every movement is a wonderful musical landscape. Pansolin executes them beautifully with his artistic sensibility taking us back to elegant yet intense bygone sounds.»
— L. Tozzi, “Musica”
«What truly had us enamoured with this album were its brilliant depth, the clarity in its execution and the subtlety in the ornaments. It makes for a measured, refined and tasteful listen, all traits that can be attributed to its musical gallantry.»
— C. Rodriguez Campos, “Hispanica Lyra, Sociedad de la Vihuela”
Poetry
«An inextinguishable source of gems which are rare in their originality.»
— P. Martino, “La Clessidra”
«Compositions too beautiful, of terrible truth, to make you shiver.»
— F. Russo, "Culture and Perspectives"
«A new voice, outside the canons, a voice that makes you think, that caresses the imagination, that materializes the essence of man in the universe.»
— M. Carocci, "Oubliettemagazine"
«Pixels lends itself comfortably to the recent landscape changes of the haiku poetry form.»
— D. Bisutti, “Elettrivista”
«Pixels is a collection of precious poetic gemstones that come together as if encrusted on a royal jewel one after the other and page after page.»
— A. Sacco, “Poesia del Nostro Tempo”