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 | 14/10/2026 | Interpreti, Melos
Leonard Bernstein at Carnegie Hall, between 1946 and 1948. Photo by William P. Gottlieb, Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Saturday, 13 November 1943, Town Hall, New York. The mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel puts I Hate Music on her programme,... 
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 | 13/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
Michael Praetorius, trombones from the Syntagma musicum, 1614-1620. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).London, Saturday 1 September 2012. In the orchestra pit of the Royal Opera House, Wagner’s Die Walküre is in rehearsal. Christopher Goldscheider, the orchestra’s... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 12/10/2026 | Dalla biblioteca, Melos
Portrait of Giuseppe Tartini, eighteenth century. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Ancona, 1714. A violinist of twenty-two, Giuseppe Tartini, plays a double stop, two notes together, and hears a third. It does not sit above the other two, as one would expect of a... 
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...
