Proms Plus Performance of works by Messiaen – Live Recording
Britten Theatre, RCM – 27th July 2008
Vingt Regards: Nos. XV Le baiser de l’enfant Jésus
Quatre études de rythme - Île de feu I
“This was an exceptional performance showing a formidable allied to a wide-ranging and perceptive musicianship."
Deniz Gelenbe
“Your musicality is so infectious it should carry a health warning! What can I say? Fabulous musical technique, delightful dancing energy and compulsive charm and energy.”
Paul Robertson
“Maria’s playing has stylish natural flair, a kaleidoscopic range of tone – extremely agile, supple virtuoso fingers allied to exemplary muscular coordination.”
Yonty Solomon
“Her energy and commitment were exemplary combined with tremendous rhythmical verve and tenacity."
Paul Archibald
"A lively and accomplished young talent... an immediate and authoritative performance.....her strong technique made light of the work's technical difficulties...great artistic sensitivity."
Ray Picot, reviewing a recital of Dutilleux, Ireland and Ginestera at St. James's Piccadilly
“Her shaping of the music was idiomatic and her playing of the cadenza, which can seem divorced from the whole, was a true culmination. She is someone to hear again – with both hands!”
Colin Anderson, reviewing Maria’s performance of Ravel’s Left Hand Piano Concerto
