Disc of the month for September 2026 What does it mean, today, to speak of Australian music? The question might seem idle, particularly in an age when the circulation of ideas, styles and compositional techniques has made it
If there are figures in the history of musical instruments in whom the roles of composer, performer and instrument maker ultimately converge, Raffaele Calace (Naples, 1863–1934) represents an almost paradigmatic example. A luthier from a family with
There are musical instruments which, as the history of music teaches us, have had to undergo the apprenticeship of a slow yet steady emancipation before being accorded the attention and consideration they deserve. Among those instruments which, as
Ci sono strumenti musicali che hanno dovuto affrontare la gavetta di una lenta ma costante emancipazione per essere accolti e ascoltati con la dovuta attenzione, come ci insegna la storia della musica. Tra questi strumenti che, a livello
I am no great expert on contemporary Greek music, let me state that at the outset to avoid any misunderstanding; yet after listening to this CD, newly released by Da Vinci Classics, I became convinced that the music
Non sono un grande conoscitore della musica contemporanea greca, lo affermo subito a scanso di equivoci, ma dopo aver ascoltato questo CD, appena pubblicato dalla Da Vinci Classics, mi sono reso conto la produzione musicale del compositore ellenico
For those who are not particularly familiar with English, the expression “gleam and gloom” might sound like some kind of wordplay or even a tongue-twister. In fact, its meaning is far deeper and more complex, since it may
There is a thread binding the voice of the saxophone to a frontier destiny, suspended between the nobility of song and the urgency of rhythm. It is no coincidence that the instrument invented by Adolphe Sax in the
