Uscita piano solo 2023
Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano – John Cage
Neuma Records (2023)
Best Bandcamp Contemporary Classical – Marzo 2023
Acquisti: Bandcamp and Neuma Records
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“This is a wonderful performance. […] Keep your eyes and ears open for Agnese Toniutti, an advocate for and a master of the avant garde.”
Allan J.Cronin, New Music Buff, April 14th, 2023
“[…] this interpretation by Toniutti is sensational. We are listening to a Martian instrument… Then there is the anti-solemn attitude of this performer who manages to bring to mind the amiability of Cage.”
Mario Gamba, Alias – Il Manifesto, April 22nd, 2023
“[…] Toniutti’s stellar readings remind us that these works have musical value far beyond their treatments… a model Cage interpreter”.
Textura editorial team, Textura.org, May 2023
“Agnese Toniutti has succeeded in creating an incredibly high-resolution and subtle recording, both in terms of interpretation and sound… she coherently and nuancedly balances machine-like and human agogic as well as preparation and piano sound. The sound result is unique.” Jakob Böttcher, Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik issue 2/2023
“Experimental music legend John Tilbury is a bit too urgent for my tastes, and James Tenney, a student of Cage, perhaps a bit too laid back. Agnese Toniutti is pretty much in the sweet spot… is clearly deeply embedded in the tradition that Cage started. This is a very worthwhile contribution to the discography of a composer more talked about than listened to.”
Bernard Hughes, The Art Desk.com, 8th July 2023
“Toniutti appears to be in love with every sound.”
La Folia Music Review, Grant Chu Covell, March 2026
Solo release 2021
Subtle Matters – Agnese Toniutti
Neuma Records (2021)
Top Five of Manifesto – Year 2021
Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical – April 2021
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“…the album sums up the spectrum and state-of-the-art for the continuingly fertile extended technique pianisms operative today. I warmly recommend it.”
Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review, August 23rd, 2021
“If the extended technique is the “canon” of the 21st century, pianist Agnese Toniutti deserves a place of honor among the performers who have emerged in this twenty years of amazing creative fervor”
Michele Palozzo, Percorsi Musicali, June 20th, 2021
“Toniutti’s intensity and concentration keep us listening… showcases her ability to make the unlikeliest musical material sing.”
Graham Rickson, The Art Desk, May 22nd, 2021
“…this work is a “unicum” projected into the future”.
Marco Maria Tosolini, Il Gazzettino, April 25th, 2021
“Toniutti magical.”
Mario Gamba, Il Manifesto, April 21st, 2021
“A very exciting album that nearly redefines how one interprets the piano“
Take effect Reviews, April 18th, 2021 “5/5: Unique.”
Guido Michelone, Alias – Il Manifesto, April 17th, 2021
Solo release 2020
Giancarlo Cardini: Lento Trascolorare, Piano Music
Da Vinci Publishing (2020)
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“… there is a (contemplative) process absorbed with the rational calmness of those who practice the voluptuousness of critical thinking.”
Mario Gamba, Alias, Il Manifesto, 16/5/2020
“… the album is in all respects (Cardini’s) portrait, light, intimate […]“
Gregorio Moppi, la Repubblica, 15/6/2020
“… pages […] that the virtuoso pianist Agnese Toniutti expresses enphasizing the lyrical constructivist scattered between note and note.”
Guido Michelone, Alias – il Manifesto, 11/07/2020
“Pianist Agnese Toniutti in Lento Trascolorare reads with extraordinary depht piano compositions by the Tuscan composer“.
Paolo Carradori, il Giornale della Musica, 2/7/2020
“…returning us in a ‘cardinian sound’, possible only if the interpreter adheres with participation to a completely personal and vaguely arcane (musical) world like that of Cardini’s music. An excellent example of how [an interpreter] should work.“
Renzo Cresti, www.renzocresti.com, 25/07/2020
“Cardini entrusted to play some of his composition pianist Agnese Toniutti, who gave evidence of extraordinary accuracy and depht, capable as few others to recognize and enhance the implications and nuances of Cardini’s thought.“
Enzo Boddi, Musica Jazz, 12/07/2020
Contribution to collection – 2023
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1)
Sub Rosa Label (2023)
Best Bandcamp Contemporary Classical – May 2023
2LP black vinyl + 24 page large booklet, limited edition 400 copies or
2CD Digipack + 72 page large booklet, limited edition 400 copies (Sold Out)
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“Perhaps what is most astonishing about the flux of noise, beauty, sound, art, collected here is the number of recent recordings from 2018 and 2021. That makes this particular double-album of various artists unique […] Philip Corner’s “A Lovely Piece Made for & By Agnese” is another new one from 2019 and played by Agnese Toniutti. Single tones are allowed to reverberate in space with periods of silence between them punctuated only by small acts of percussion. Philip Corner’s piece “Toy Piano” from 2012 gets a performance by Toniutti also, and it sounds like a prepared piano in the way the percussion aspect of the instrument is emphasized […] The piece by Dick Higgins, titled “Emmett William’s Ear” composed in 1977 for piano, and again played by Toniutti, has become a favorite of mine from this collection. ”
Justin Patrick Moore, Igloo Magazine, May 13th, 2024
“[…] the album immediately lifts with some strikingly lively performances, perhaps uncharacterisically so in the case of Agnese Toniutti’s piano interpretation of La Monte Young’s Composition 1960 #15 to Richard Huelsenbeck […] Toniutti’s restless performance of Dick Higgins’ hyperactive Emmett William’s Ear from 1977. Toniutti and Miroslav Beinhauer each play a piano piece by Fluxus mainstay Mieko Shiomi, but these are charming later works from 1990 and 2009, respectively.
Several pieces are culled from Toniutti’s album of Philip Corner compositions, including a suitably jagged solo rendition of the recent Small Pieces of a Fluxus Reality. I’ll have more stuff about Corner in the new year – a whole lot more […] This collection really does work rather well if you ignore the selling point of the F-word and treat Fluxus more as they do, an element of obscure influence over a somewhat neglected body of music created over many years into the present. ”
Ben Harper, Cookie La Moo, December 30th, 2023
Contribution to collection – 2024
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Keep Together (Part 2)
Sub Rosa Label (2024)
2LP black vinyl + 24 page large booklet, limited edition 400 copies or
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“[…] Congratulations also to those who want to hear and read this; there is much to discover. A colorful compilation […] a collector’s edition that does not conclusively cover the subject, but rather invites further, more in-depth searching, finding, and doing it yourself. […] Let’s get started.”
Stefan Fricke, Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 2/2025
“[…] the album brings together works from an impressive roster of Fluxus and non-Fluxus composers, reimagining the boundaries of music and performance. […] The Fluxus & Neofluxus editions, spearheaded by the Opening Performance Orchestra, are ambitious in scope. Across Keep Together, 75 compositions—both archival and newly created—are performed by 10 soloists and 4 ensembles, including renowned musicians such as Nicolas Horvath, Agnese Toniutti, Miroslav Beinhauer, and Deborah Walker. The album does not merely document Fluxus history but extends its philosophy into the present, proving that the movement’s radical spirit remains vital.”
Nenad Georgievski, Vintage Cafe, February 14th 2025
