Reviews

Jack Sullivan

…la pianista finlandese Sanna Vaarni è un’artista eccelsa, dotata di una sonorità squisita, grande intelligenza e una tecnica formidabile.

Hans-Dieter Grünefeld

The poetically gentle, fluid “Wassermusik” (Water Music) from Luciano Berio’s cycle of encores serves, in a sense, as a metaphorical bridge between two late works…

Within the Waves on “Amadeus”

A beautiful review for my CD “Within the Waves- Berio & Schubert” in Amadeus written by Luca Ciammarughi.

New episode of “Pianista”

The music of Luciano Berio, and in particular his 2001 Piano Sonata, is the focus of this episode of “The Pianist,” featuring a recording by Finnish composer Sanna Vaarni.

Within the Waves

Sanna Vaarni between Schubert and Berio: A Timeless Dialogue

Sanna Vaarni’s Janacek stands up to comparison – especially in its recording

It is challenging to find lines in Janáček’s late romantic, discursively fragmented music, but Vaarni’s interpretation stands up to comparison.

New review on Klassik Heute

New review on the Klassik Heute website. Read the full review: http://www.klassik-heute.de/4daction/www_medien_einzeln?id=24944

Sanna Vaarni’s new piano CD dedicated to Takemitsu and Messiaen – CorriereBit

Finnish composer Sanna Vaarni’s new piano CD, Les yeux clos, was released by Stradivarius in January. It offers an interesting comparison between two 20th-century musicians born in opposite places: Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (1930–1996) and French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992).

Here is a new beautiful review on the magazine “PianoNews”

Since the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, French composers have been fascinated by Asian art and music.

New review on Clic Magazine

Ce couplage inédit de deux composititeurs éminents du vingtiéme siècle appartenant à deux univers distincts, Orient/Occident