In an age where hyper-specialization and specialized knowledge prevail, competition (and success) in a single field of human knowledge, and a comprehensive humanistic education seems to have lost its value, I feel compelled to call a failed violist a maestro. In his musical life, I...
There's an opera by Verdi that, among musicians, is known as "the unnamed": it's said to bring terrible bad luck (not to use more explicit terms). To avoid mentioning it, a universally recognized synonym has been coined: "The Power of Fate." Perhaps because at the...
Sometimes, chance works in our favor. At the finals of the 65th Busoni Competition, one of the contestants—Chinese pianist Yifan Wu, who would go on to win both the First Prize and the Audience Award—delivered a rather unique, forward-looking interpretation of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3...
Is there any work, or even just a piece, in the vast history of music specifically written for string quartet and wind band? To my knowledge, there isn’t. So, at first, when I was asked to bring together these two musical entities – the string...
Honor, politics, revolt, betrayal, patriotism, family love, leaders and adversaries, blood. All of this is present in the notes of Beethoven’s Coriolanus, one of the great master’s most celebrated pieces, dedicated to the tragedy of the legendary Roman general. From the first powerful chords, the...
Many years ago, the great violinist Jascha Heifetz gave a performance of the finale of Mendelssohn's Concerto at a breathtaking speed. At the end of the evening, amidst the admiring crowd, there stood a violin student—equally amazed and somewhat frustrated by the pyrotechnic virtuosity that...
The program of the 2025 New Year's Concert will begin with a triple drum roll, which I will have the pleasure of bringing to three beautiful theaters for a total of five performances, always at the helm of the Filarmonia Veneta Regional Youth Orchestra: Teatro...
Four Concerts for saxophone and orchestra, four first performances as part of the 3rd European Saxophone Congress, which is being held in Italy, in Trento, these days. New compositions by four authors of three different nationalities and with very different musical languages. And then five...
«A rich ensemble of Italian musicians all of the highest level.» Thanks to the editorial staff of Primo Movimento and to Arturo Stalteri who, with these words, in the July 1st episode introduced us to the RAI Radio 3 audience, in proposing listening to our Balletti...
Friday 29 March at 9.00 pm, in the Church of Sant'Andrea in Trissino (VI), which dominates the town from the hill and overlooks the villa of the historic Counts of these lands, a meditation in music to culturally and spiritually celebrate the evening of Good...