Classical Jazz
About musicians, who are the ones who have impressed you the most? Among those heard live Carlos Kleiber, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, ... Among the pianists are Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Artur Rubinstein, Radu Lupu, and Krystian Zimerman... Among the violinists were Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern, Arthur Grumiaux ... Then Keith Jarrett, alone and with his trio, Ahmad Jamal, McCoy Tyner, João Gilberto, Ray Charles, Brad Mehldau… “Il punteggio” what is it? “Il punteggio” is a project that must be realized in sound. Without interpretation, the performance remains a dead letter, even if we can get a mental idea of what it might sound like. I know you have published some books on 18th and 19th-century music... I have written books about what have always been some great passions: the instrumental music of Vivaldi, the songs and chamber music of Schubert, and the concerts of Mozart. Another book is instead dedicated to an eighteenth-century Neapolitan musician who is unknown today, Giovanni De Santis. But you are also interested in contemporary music, do you want to tell us about it? For years, until 2020, I was the consul of the Biennale Musica, Ivan Fedele, curating its catalog and organizing meetings and research seminars. What is your general opinion of Italian music and especially contemporary classical music? He doesn’t follow musical news much, even though I have a twenty-year-old son who is a rapper; he is trying to make himself known and makes me listen to many pieces of that genre. In classical music, there are exciting composers, such as Marco Momi and Filippo Perocco, and essential and internationally renowned composers now getting on in age, such as Ivan Fedele and Stefano Gervasoni. Future projects? I’m writing a book on the 19th-century German symphony. But very, very slowly…
Spring 2023 - The Gendre issue
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