Luis Magalhães ended the evening with an ecstatic performance of Liszt's Dante Sonata. In his diabolic mixture of tone color, the performer at times seemed to be playing with four hands. At the end of the concert one could but shout: Da Capo!
Watensheider Zeitung , Germany
Luis Magalhães' excellent rendition of this unusual work (Ravel Left Hand Concerto) was sometimes covered by an overpowering orchestral sound. But in the long passages where the piano was alone, Magalhães could shine.
Mr. Magalhaes impressed the jurors and the audience alike for his probing, impassioned, and deeply thoughtful accounts of Rachmaninoff's Correlli Variations and Shostakovich's 2nd concerto.
Magalhães performed this best known of Mozart's Piano Concerti with heart and soul, backed up by a high level of technical efficiency. His expressive playing in the dolce-theme impressed as much as the powerful broken octaves in the bravura section.
