an astonishing sensitivity, flexible and elegant phrasing, along with a warm and enveloping sound, where the soloist was able to demonstrate brilliant virtuosity, vibrant energy and overall fluidity

What strikes, in Pagano, is the confidence as a performer that leads him to tackle the most complex passages, drawing from the cello a penetrating, calibrated sound with perfect intonation, refined by a natural aesthetic taste, always on target in capturing the smallest nuances

A fantastic evening at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, with two performers of great technical, artistic, and communicative talent: Ettore Pagano, a true prodigy of the cello, and the conductor Alevtina Ioffe