Category: Interviews
A Voice Mistaken: Domenico Mancini and the Echo of the Castrati
The figure of Domenico Mancini represents a valuable and particularly significant testimony for understanding the sometimes subtle boundary between the voice of a falsettist and that of a castrato singer. Mancini, a […]
Colin Mawby and his World
One year ago the British composer and director Colin Mawby died at the age of 83…This is the interview that I did with him some years before the sad event. Colin Mawby […]
Romuald Twardowski: When the new and the old become original
Romuald Twardowski was born in Vilnius in 1930. During years of occupation he studied the violin, after the war piano and organ. Between 1946-1950 he was an organist in various Vilnius churches. […]
The True History of the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin by Alessandro Grandi
It was May 2nd, 1630, early morning, when the telephone rang in my country house on the first hills of Rimini. That annoying sound took me unprepared … Who could have been […]
Tõnu Kaljuste at the mirror
I met Tõnu Kaljuste in one of the best pizzerias in Rimini, where we had dinner together after spending a long, hard day at the Cesena Conservatory of Music, where, from February […]
Interview with Ēriks Esenvalds
AA: When did your career as a composer start? And later, in the course of your studies, did you realize that music was the path you would follow? EE: I was born […]
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A Voice Mistaken: Domenico Mancini and the Echo of the Castrati
The figure of Domenico Mancini represents a valuable and particularly significant testimony for understanding the sometimes subtle boundary between the voice of a falsettist and that of a castrato singer. Mancini, a […]
The Tempo in the Choral Music of the XVI Century
I would like to consider how tempo was written about in the XVI century and attempts to estimate the speed of the standard tempo that musicians thought of as unexceptional. The sources […]
Pescespada Mediterraneo
Il pescespada del Mediterraneo è un pesce azzurro dal sapore abbastanza forte, basta però trovare la ricetta giusta per cucinarlo e renderlo molto delicato. Quella che vi propongo di seguito, fidatevi lo […]
Singing, In Style, Renaissance Vocal Music
Renaissance vocal music does not seem to be an integral and faithful derivation of polymnia, but rather appears to have progressed logically out of the medieval trends. More evolutionary than revolutionary, the […]
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A Voice Mistaken: Domenico Mancini and the Echo of the Castrati
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From enthusiasm to enterprise: how associationism has changed with the reform of the Third Sector
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Singing, In Style, Renaissance Vocal Music
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Colin Mawby and his World
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The Lady in Black
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Romuald Twardowski: When the new and the old become original
English Language / Interviews
The True History of the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin by Alessandro Grandi