Il Secolo XIX

“Tampalini, an amazing guitar. Two pins of the guitarist’s musicality immediately emerged with unquestionable evidence: the predilection and an affinity with the literature of the twentieth century, an astonishing safety and technical meticulousness. The latter was revealed with authority at every opportunity , from the ductility of the timbres, to the variety of expressive intonations, often enhanced by a mutability as sudden as unexceptionable in the definition of all-round peculiarities, thus passing from very intimate delicacies, with barely touched sounds – those voices of the ineffable peculiar to the instrument six strings – with sharp torn, from the magical acoustic ampoules of the harmonics and angular articulations, up to a percussive use of the resonance chamber, Turina’s Iberian impressionism, the sophisticated experiments in a twelve-tone key of the Swiss Martin, the restless frescoes of Castelnuovo German, Gina’s intricate architecture stera, the late-romanticism revised according to new languages ​​by Ghedini and finally the aphorisms of the English Walton flowed under his hands with a really excellent and admirable familiarity and dominion in their exceptionality. “