da Enrico Melozzi | 15/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Mata Hari dancing at the Musée Guimet, Paris, 1905. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Milan, Thursday 4 January 1912. At the Teatro alla Scala the ballet Bacco e Gambrinus is on the bill, music by Romualdo Marenco, choreography by Giovanni Pratesi, revived for the... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 14/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
by the Melos Chorus Third and final instalment of our portrait of Giovanni Sollima. A Roman cellist of three centuries ago, and a city that loved music on an immoderate scale. Rome, 3 September 1704. Giovanni Battista Costanzi is born, and his contemporaries will call... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 13/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Francesco Trevisani, Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).In 2015 La Serenissima, the ensemble led by the violinist Adrian Chandler, records The Four Seasons for the Avie label. Whoever puts on the disc hears music they know by... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 12/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Ralph Vaughan Williams around 1900. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Ingrave, Essex, 4 December 1903. The Heatley sisters, daughters of the vicar, have organised a tea at the vicarage to introduce a young composer from London to the villagers who can still sing... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 10/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
by Samuele Guerzoni Berlin, 4 October 1892. Carl Bechstein’s concert hall opens, and the opening recital is given by Hans von Bülow, at the piano: on the programme, among other things, Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor and Beethoven’s Sonata op. 81a, “Les Adieux”. It will... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 10/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Giuseppe Verdi in 1900, with Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuditta and Giulio Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari and Leopoldo Metlicovitz. Archivio Storico Ricordi, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Busseto, Tuesday 12 October 1813, 9 am. Before...
