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Listening to the new album by the Coritage Saxophone Quartet means immersing yourself, for a little over an hour, in an atmosphere of suspended contemporaneity, built on a complex web of historical,...

One of the most unexpected meteors in the history of music. With these words, while referring to the music of the Trecento, Nino Pirrotta comments on one of the most intricate enigmas of medieval...

Inspiration and order, visionary and concrete: the compositional path shown by Edoardo Dadone could be summarized with these (and other similar, ad libitum) apparent antitheses. It is certain that...

Dall'Abaco / Sasso Violin Sonatas CD1. Largo E Cantabile 2. Allegro 3. Adagio 4. Giga Allegro 5. Largo 6. Allegro Ma Non Presto 7. Adagio 8. Allegro 9. Andante 10. Allegro 11. Adagio 12. Giga 13...

Recorded in Finland, in J?rvenp?? near Helsinki, this disc is a tribute to five extraordinary figures in Italian music: Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968),...

Dallapiccola / Togni / Orchestra Di Padova Dallapiccola & Togni: An Mathilde CD

Danyel / Chance / Beier Like As The Lute Delights CD1. Can Doleful Notes? 2. No, Let Chromatic Tunes 3. Uncertain Certain Turns 4. Dost Thou Withdraw Thy Grace? 5. Pavan, 'Rosamund' - Paul Beier 6...

I believe the key idea of this, if I may define it as so, cycle of prayers" is the effusion of spiritual warmth in the individual, the sharing of pity, love and joy in the heart of men; all sincerely...

It is impossible to talk about Sviatoslav Richter and his mastery of the piano in normal terms of speech. Each time an article on him comes out, it is liberally dotted with superlatives, reminiscent...

The process, we could call an alchemical metamorphosis, of the transformation of human breath into sound and then into music, is what has made the trumpet one of the most fascinating and most...

Desprez / De Labyrintho / Testolin Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae CD1. Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae 2. Miserere Mei, Deus 3. Salve Regina 4. Kyrie 5. Gloria 6. Credo 7. Sanctus - Benedictus 8. Agnus...

Across the XXth century, creative musical thinking has increasingly focused not only on the organization of sound, but also on the generation and production of musical sound itself: in that...