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Hello everyone, I read somewhere that to best interpret the work of a Romantic composer or one from the late 1700s, an period instrument is required. Is it true? I know well that the first p...
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LucaCavaliere
Paderewski was an author I knew very little about. I had the chance to get my hands on a minuet and discovered a true pleasure for the spirit. Charming, in the old style and very effective;...
Farewell to Luigi Pestalozza, celebrated musicologist and partisan http://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/morto-pestalozza-1.2916749 RIP
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antares86
Hi, while I was going to work today, I heard the end of a broadcast featuring a truly remarkable 15-year-old violinist. I searched through Rai Tre podcasts but I can't find the broadcast in...
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maquieto
Hello! My daughter, a master's student in piano performance, is studying the score: Music for three pianos: Hymns Author: Luigi Dallapiccola Publisher: Milan: Carisch, [©1936] It is impossib...
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maquieto
It seems and is another world, 1971, RAI, Saturday night. Let's spare ourselves the hassle about the performance but rather, besides noting the abyss that exists between the programming of t...
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maquieto
The rock pianist reinterprets Mozart, her version sounds almost like jazz http://www.lastampa.it/2016/11/30/multimedia/spettacoli/la-pianista-rock-reinterpreta-mozart-bTqGmxSGeMUnjnUDrwwy8L/...
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maquieto
Twenty-one unpublished works by Giacomo Puccini rediscovered http://www.toscanamedianews.it/lucca-ritrovati-ventuno-inediti-di-giacomo-puccini.htm
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maquieto
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On January 31, 1797, Franz Schubert was born, another of the greatest composers in music history and certainly the greatest in terms of lieder. I on earth, you in heaven, we both wander vigo...
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maquieto
Listening to "preparatory" Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps
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maquieto
The CD is giving way to iPod, iPhone, and more or less legal downloads. Instead, vinyl, which never truly died and which objectively does not have the typical advantages of the CD (compact s...
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maquieto
On May 9, 1567, Claudio Monteverdi was born in Cremona, which is to say one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. A Cremona he will thus be remembered I hope that even i...
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maquieto
I cannot remember everything. I must have been unconscious for most of the time. I only remember the grand moment when everyone began to sing, as if they had agreed upon it, the ancient pray...
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maquieto
I am reading more and more often about musicians engaged in piano recitals, but what exactly is the difference with "classic" concerts?
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maquieto
I listened to Messiaen online ...naturally what I found, and I must say it struck me deeply. I had never listened to anything [of his] before. In his compositions, I saw harmonic groups, but...
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maquieto
Hi, I know you will insult me, but at the dawn of 57 years, filters hold less and less, and therefore, although not being proud of it, I am not afraid to say that when I listen to a record w...
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antares86
Hi, I have been listening to classical music for many years and even though I am considered more or less an "expert" by my friends, in here I am and feel like a novice. In this regard, I was...
It seems like a trivial question, but it doesn't seem clear to me when Scriabin was born; are there "reliable" sources? It seems that the dates going around are January 6th, 7th, or 10th, an...
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Terenzio
January 5th should become "piano day". On this magical day, in fact, three giants of the keyboard were born: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Brescia, January 5, 1920 – Lugano, June 12, 1995),...
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antares86
Good morning, is it possible to find on some website or in some publication what the specific characteristics of each major and minor key are, going beyond the usual and easy distinction bet...
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Hi everyone, forgive me if I am creating a duplicate discussion but I didn't find anything in the old discussions. I am looking for an exam that I have to do, a piano and orchestra concert,...
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Nanuccio
A piece by Grisey that I didn't know, written at the age of 23(!) to commemorate the victims of Biafra. It was performed for the first time in Switzerland a few years ago. The ensemble is co...
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In the 'Listening Guide 1' to Mahler's Third available on flaminioonline, regarding the last movement, one reads: VI. Lento. Molto tranquillo ma intenso. The work concludes, following famous...
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LucaCavaliere
