The Strad - Session report
“…It would take a stony heart, listening ot Dego's playing, to resist the extroverted Paganini-meets-Brahms appeal of the Busoni Concerto… Indeed, her approach to both this and the Brahms on the new album illuminates just how deeply Busoni was influenced by Brahms's example, working in some near-direct quotations, and thus also where he went his own way with a lightness of spirit that he struggled to emulate in his later music.”
— The Strad (March 2024)
"…It would take a stony heart, listening to Dego's playing, to resist the extroverted Paganini-meets-Brahms appeal of the Busoni Concerto…
Indeed, her approach to both this and the Brahms on the new album illuminates just how deeply Busoni was influenced by Brahms's example, working in some near-direct quotations, and thus also where he went his own way with a lightness of spirit that he struggled to emulate in his later music."
The Strad
(March 2024)
Gramophone - The musician and the score
Mozart’s First Piano Quartet, K478.
“Of course, we know the story about Mozart losing the publisher’s commission for this quartet because it was too difficult for amateurs,” muses Dego, “and it’s true - but the difficulty is also musical. You need to understand what it’s saying here, and create all the different voices. It isn’t one of the sight-readable things that were fashionable at that time. It has all the theatre, it has all of Mozart, it’s extraordinary.”
September 2023
Mozart’s First Piano Quartet, K478.
“Of course, we know the story about Mozart losing the publisher’s commission for this quartet because it was too difficult for amateurs,” muses Dego, “and it’s true - but the difficulty is also musical. You need to understand what it’s saying here, and create all the different voices. It isn’t one of the sight-readable things that were fashionable at that time. It has all the theatre, it has all of Mozart, it’s extraordinary.”