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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

The penultimate event of Trieste’s symphonic season featured works by two composers who could not be more different—not so much for the obvious chronological distance between the two pieces, but rather for the very nature of the personalities involved

The seemingly natural, almost obvious, spontaneous, innate ease with which Ettore Pagano resolves even the most complex passages of the Second Cello Concerto by Dvorak