da Enrico Melozzi | 18/10/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli at the piano, Bolzano, December 1960. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Zurich, 1986. On the day of the recital, fresh air is let into the hall. It seems a courtesy to the audience, and yet it has...
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Yo-Yo Ma. Photo by Brantley Gutierrez, Opus 3 Artists press photo. On Friday 16 October 2026 we opened the Spotify pages of forty cellists, living and dead, concert soloists and YouTube phenomena, and read each one’s monthly listeners: the people who played at...
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
John Broadwood & Sons, grand piano, London, 1827. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Augsburg, 17 October 1777. Mozart is twenty-one, on his way to Mannheim and Paris, and writes to his father a letter full of enthusiasm...
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
On the night between 26 and 27 January 1967, while the Sanremo Festival was celebrating its rite, by now a national holiday, in the city of flowers, room 219 of the Hotel Savoy became the stage of one of the deepest wounds in Italian music: at the age of twenty-eight,...
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
by the Melos Chorus Second chapter of a four-part portrait. The records with which Il Giardino Armonico made its name around the world. Lugano, 1993, Studio 1 of the Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana. Il Giardino Armonico records Vivaldi’s The Four...
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Teofil Kwiatkowski, The Last Moments of Fryderyk Chopin. Warsaw, Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Paris, Place Vendôme, the night of 16 to 17 October 1849. In the apartment at the Hôtel Baudard de Saint-James, where he moved only a few...