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 | Interpreti, Melos
Maria Callas acknowledges the applause at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 11 July 1959. Photo by Joop van Bilsen, Anefo, Nationaal Archief (CC0).A chart is doing the rounds on social media these days, the kind that makes opera-goers smile and opera producers think. It... 
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... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 09/10/2026 | Melos, Officina
Bassoon from the musical instrument collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).Biebrich, on the Rhine, 1831. Carl Almenräder is getting on for forty-five, plays the bassoon in the court orchestra of the Dukes of... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 09/10/2026 | Melos, Storia e tecnica
Photographic portrait of Camille Saint-Saëns. Paris Musées, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).9 March 1886 is Mardi Gras, and in Paris, at the home of the cellist Charles Lebouc, a Carnival evening of music is under way. On the programme is a novelty nobody has yet heard, a... 
da Enrico Melozzi | 08/10/2026 | Cross-over, Melos
Elias Gottlob Haussmann, Portrait of Gottfried Reiche, Bach’s trumpeter in Leipzig, painted between 1726 and 1727. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).On the evening of 11 January 1967 BBC2 broadcasts an episode of Masterworks: the English Chamber Orchestra...
