• 1103
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

“I Cameristi della Scala” – Concerto in la minore per due violini e archi di Antonio Vivaldi. Allegro. Largo. Allegro. Salvatore Quaranta e Roberto Nigro, violins. Milan, oct. 21, 2011.

• 1129
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Anne-Sophie Mutter – “Il Trillo del Diavolo” – G. Tartini (1692 – 1770) – IV Movement “Allegro assai – Andante Allegro Assai”.

• 1010
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Anne-Sophie Mutter – “Il Trillo del Diavolo” – G. Tartini (1692 – 1770) _ II and III Movements “Allegro” – “Andante Allegro”. Giuseppe Tartini – Born: 8-Apr-1692 Pirano, Istria, Italy – Died: 26-Feb-1770 Padua, Italy. Italian violinist, composer and musical theorist, was born at Tirano in Istria on the 12th of April 1692. In early […]

• 1045
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Anne-Sophie Mutter gehört seit über 35 Jahren zu den großen Geigen-Virtuosen unserer Zeit. Die im Badischen Rheinfelden geborene Violinistin begann ihre internationale Karriere 1976 bei den Festspielen in Luzern. Ein Jahr danach trat sie als Solistin bei den Salzburger Pfingstkonzerten unter der Leitung von Herbert von Karajan auf. Seitdem konzertiert Anne-Sophie Mutter weltweit in allen […]

• 1156
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Change from the Viol to the Violin —The reader who has studied the principles of construction and playing of the old string instruments, as explained in Lesson XV, or examined them in museums, will not have failed to note that they were complicated and limited in technic. The members of this family were large and […]

• 876
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

The development of the violin, of violin playing and violin music, in a certain sense shows reciprocal influences, and went hand in hand. This was the more certain because the composers who wrote for the instrument were also players, in almost every instance the virtuosi of their times. During the polyphonic period, composers were singers […]

• 1411
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Arcangelo Corelli, one of the greatest baroque composers. “La Follia”. 1700. “La Folía” (Spanish), also “Folies d’Espagne” (French), “Follies of Spain” (English) or “Follia” (Italian), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes (of Portuguese origin) or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record. The theme exists in two versions, referred to […]

• 977
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

First of all the good news: there is a future for opera! Despite all the financial, social and political gremlins that should perhaps make the future of opera questionable, its future is assured by simple artistic truth: a story told on a stage through music remains a compellingly attractive experience. For some people, the term […]

• 1004
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Lucia Valentini Terrani, Alto – Claudio Scimone & I Solisti Veneti. “Vorresti Amor da me?” – Aria of Alcina -“Orlando Furioso” – A. Vivaldi – 1978 Erato.

• 1535
• Articles
• 23 Feb 2013

Vivaldi’s lost masterpiece is found in library archives “Orlando Furioso”, the 1727 opera, is one of the great composer’s masterworks, but a wholly different score from 1714 has been found among Vivaldi’s personal papers. In a development described by music experts as “a bombshell in the world of Baroque opera”, a new version of Vivaldi’s […]