Album of the month of August 2025 The birth of a new record label in the field of classical music is always to be welcomed with joy, as well as with admiration for the courage shown by those
If there is a composer in the Western art-music world whose genius has had to contend constantly with the reception and acceptance of his works—sometimes arduous, sometimes misunderstood, sometimes wholly uncomprehended—it is none other than the
Se esiste nel mondo della musica colta occidentale un compositore la cui genialità ha dovuto fare costantemente i conti con la ricezione e l’accettazione delle sue composizioni, a volte ardua, a volte malintesa, e ancora a volte
The longstanding difficulty and suspicion surrounding the music of the Venetian composer Ermanno Wolf‑Ferrari—even in the face of a somewhat diluted “Wolf‑Ferrari Renaissance” that has emerged in recent decades—stem chiefly from the fact that
La difficoltà e la sospettosità con le quali la musica del veneziano Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari è sempre stata considerata, nonostante una sorta di annacquato “Wolf-Ferrari Renaissance” affiorato negli ultimi decenni, risiedono principalmente nel fatto che la sua cultura e
There were essentially two reasons that prompted me to listen to and write about this recording—featuring lute pieces by the Venetian (despite his German-sounding name) Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger and the Frenchman Robert Ballard—recently released by Aulicus
Sono stati fondamentalmente due i motivi che mi hanno spinto ad ascoltare e a scrivere di questa registrazione, che riguarda brani per liuto del veneziano, a dispetto del suo cognome, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger e del francese Robert Ballard,
I believe it cannot be deemed heretical to assert that Ferruccio Busoni still struggles to be accepted as one of the leading composers at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and that this difficulty lies primarily
