da Enrico Melozzi | 20/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Fryderyk Chopin, daguerreotype from 1849. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Among the Italian words music has given the world, rubato is the most misunderstood. In common usage it means playing with freedom, slowing down where it feels good; in the original idea... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 19/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Mozart, Rondo alla turca. Audio cover from the Melos sound library.Of all the names of musical forms, rondo is the one that frightens the fewest people, for a simple reason: anyone who has ever sung a song with a refrain already knows it. The rondo is exactly this: a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 15/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Mozart, Sonata K. 310, first page of the autograph. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Near the end of the first movement of almost every classical concerto, something strange happens: the orchestra stops on a suspended chord, the conductor lowers his arms, and the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 11/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Autograph first page of a fugue from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Theme and variations seems the easiest form to listen to: there is a melody, and then the same melody dressed up in ten ways. In reality it is the form in... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 06/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
Efrem Zimbalist playing the violin. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).The warm, undulating sound of strings, which for us is the very sound of the violin, did not exist for most of the history of music. Continuous vibrato, applied to every note as the baseline... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 01/09/2026 | Ascolti, Melos
A Berlioz concert at the Cirque Olympique on the Champs-Élysées, engraving of 1845. Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Anyone who opens the programme of a symphonic concert almost always finds the same architecture: four...
