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Since it's beginning, organ writing has been characterized by it's imitation and contrapuntal style the severity of the melodic lines managing to catch the distinctive element of the instrument,...

The Encyclopedias of Music would do well to add Montanari name to those of Cathy Berberian and Gabriella Bartolomei. Fantastic in contending with Ceccarelli's concrete-digital sound [...]. (Mario...

Ceci n'est pas une fl?te is a Magritte-like calembour, representing the desire, with this release, to propose a synesthetic listening experience within a game of sound mirages, illusions and...

Charpentier / Felice / Saba / Oppo Charpentier: Miserere & Other Sacred Works CD

Cherubini / Quartetto Savinio / Ruta / Bertucci Complete String Quartets CD1. Adagio - Allegro Agitato 2. Larghetto 3. Scherzo. Allegretto Moderato 4. Finale. Allegro Assai 5. Allegro Maestoso 6...

As a composer, conductor, and pianist, Chessa has been active aound the globe; recent compositions include commissions for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and SFMOMA.1. Petrolio. Quattro...

The repertoire presented by Ensemble Musagete is characterized as a quest to bring great symphonic music into the realm of chamber music in a transparent and intimate way. The success and interest...

Luca Fiorentini and Jakub Tchorzewski's concert was recorded on September 25, 2014 at the Oratorio San Filippo Neri in Bologna as part of the "Il Nuovo l'Antico" section of the XXXIII edition of the...

... and even when Ginastera gives you one piece with a close family likeness to another, you listen with a sense of renewal thnks to performances by Mariangela Vacatello of a super zest, brio and...

The phoneme is the smallest unit of sound able to form the words of a language. The term 'phonemes' therefore refers to the sounds an idiom uses to compose meanings, the smallest parts into which it...

... As Fernando Pessoa wrote, "no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed". Francesco Ciurlo, in this overview of his works, frees us from this condition and invites us to...

Still today, an area of shadow, sorely in need of illumination, continues to surround the piano output of various composers living between the end of the 18th and start of the 19th centuries,...