I knew about Michelangeli and I was surprised and "shocked" when a friend told me about Pollini. Could it be or is it a hoax? Thanks to anyone who wants to give me some more certain news...
Perhaps it is because during this period my gaze and my thoughts turn retrospectively to the last century, perhaps it is because I feel with a bit of apprehension and perhaps nostalgia, a ca...
I would like to commemorate the anniversary of this great musician (it was yesterday, to be exact). I believe that as a musician he is worth much more than any of his detractors... time will...
If music announces the future http://espresso.repubblica.it/opinioni/vetro-soffiato/2014/07/02/news/se-la-musica-annuncia-il-futuro-1.171756 It was Schönberg and Stravinsky who pointed the w...
I always find this kind of video interesting, they always make me reflect a lot. Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff performs his solo piano works in a spectacular recording made on...
In the month of June - exactly from the 10th to the 30th - the latest edition of the Martha Argerich Project was held; here is the general program http://www.luganofestival.ch/index.php?url=...
A few days ago I found myself commenting on an article titled "What is music?" on the online newspaper Huffington Post. I was happy because it was the first explicitly musicological article,...
The great prophet John Cage (a historical representative of contemporary music) would be happy to know that near my house there are at least 6 musical groups (with heavy amplification) playi...
For me, this is the greatest guitarist ever heard. Child prodigy, of French father and Italian mother, passed away at only 42 years old in 1967. Rare Classical Guitar Video: Ida Presti - HVL...
I am not a classical 'purist' (I listen to almost everything) and I don't know how many people are aware of Filtsch, but regarding him Chopin said that he was the only pianist capable of tru...
Waltzes from *Der Rosenkavalier* - Opus 59 (1911), arranged by Váša Příhoda VÁŠA PŘÍHODA, violin; Otto Graef, piano Recorded in 1935; first released on the Italian Cetra label, catalogue # O...
'Good evening, I would like to propose some listenings of various pieces from various eras inspired by this theme (I will limit myself to the late period from Frescobaldi onwards if anyone w...
We find ourselves having to witness a possible déjà vu, as happened with the Rai Orchestras and Choirs. Sign the petition, hoping it will be of some use. http://www.change.org/petitions/mini...
I share the following testimony Leopold Sonnleithner remembers his friend Franz Schubert (testimony from 1857): "He rarely went to the theater and seldom frequented salons; he liked to spend...
(text shared by Quaderni d'Altri Tempi) 100 years after the landing on Earth. It is available for free via a collection of unpublished works and rarities by Sun Ra on the occasion of the cen...
As promised elsewhere, I wanted to upload some pieces that I heard at the London International A Cappella Choir Competition last week. They are essentially contemporary pieces, some very rec...
"One September morning in 1824, Countess von Esterhazy invited Maestro Schubert, during the breakfast we were all having together, to set a poem she liked very much to music for our four voi...
Hello everyone, I am looking for a pianist who wants to undertake the study of chamber repertoire for violin and piano with the aim of deepening works of this genre to perform and participat...
The historian Jacques Le Goff has died http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2014/04/01/news/morto_jacques_le_goff-82451855/ Last descendant of the great Annales school, which starts from Bloch a...