Davide Ranaldi, born in 2000, is the most recent winner of the “Premio Venezia”, one of the most coveted Italian piano competitions not only because it assigns a prestigious title, but also because it ensures a concrete musical itinerary for the winners. The path of pianists such as Giuseppe Albanese, Andrea Bacchetti, Leonora Armellini, Mariangela Vacatello is the best demonstration of this. Davide Ranaldi, a pupil of Alexander Romanovsky and Leonid Margarius, makes his debut in the Talenti review with a program of dazzling virtuosity that opens one of Chopin’s most particular pieces: the Fantasia op.49, a bold page, full of brilliant ideas, at times vague and allusive, in continuous timbre and harmonic transformation. In the center, the 28 variations written by Brahms on a theme by Paganini (Capriccio n.24), an admirable synthesis of instrumental virtuosity and compositional virtuosity.