Thoughts about Italian Conservatories of Music (Suonare News, 9/2014)The professional training of a musician is a highly serious and delicate matter, but full of stimuli and gratifications. The relation...
Hystorical pianists and modern pianistsWhat is authenticity in piano performance? Every performer of classical music – just as, one presumes, every listener – aspires to reach...
Equal and Unequal Temperament: A Comparative ListeningOur ear has always been accustomed to hearing music with equal tuning, in which the 12 semitones of the octave are all the same. This...
Music and Movies (Segnocinema, January 2016)Morricone, Nyman, Vacchi: three different paths to composing for the cinema. Music and cinema have many elements in common: an orchestral...
Felix Mendelssohn: a great composer still to be rediscovered (Il Gazzettino, 31/1/2016)Felix Mendelssohn: a great composer still to be rediscovered. Felix Mendelssohn is still the most undervalued and misunderstood of the...