Until a few decades ago, if you wanted to record a piece for solo flute or for a musical ensemble, you had to go to a recording studio, pay for the room, equipment and technicians, and wait several days for our recording.
In fact, few were the musicians who could afford this “luxury”: for most, it was simply a dream.
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This Sonata was written in Alma Ata during the painful years of the Second World War. Performed for the first time in 1943 by the flutist Charkovsky, “accompanied” on the piano by Sviatoslav Richter, the composer subsequently made a version for violin and piano, in collaboration with David Oistrakh. The piece still represents today an authentic masterpiece of the…
This text tells of a discovery, which took place a few years ago on the island of Stromboli: a case of vintage records, which belonged to a family of emigrants. The Tesoriero family had emigrated in the early twentieth century to the United States and Australia. One day, in ’48, Giuseppe Tesoriero sent a case of records as a…
English multifaceted composer of the 19th century. Paladina of women’s rights boasts a catalog that embraces multiple compositional genres. She was a significant voice of the 19th century British and European music.
di Onorio Zaralli Excerpt from Onorio Zaralli’s book “Playing with the soul” ©2017 Conoscere è una esigenza dell’uomo. Ignorare è un bisogno dell’uomo. La differenza è chiara: conosco, quando ho esigenza di imparare e di crescere liberamente; ignoro, se ho bisogno di nascondere, se preferisco “conservare” piuttosto che rischiare di perdermi nella libertà. Bene: per quanto riguarda l’universo emotivo,…
It is the beginning of a new school year. Everything starts again. New hopes and new projects. But there is one goal all the teachers share. We want our students to improve, so we work on all the details that make a young musician complete.
From 1930 to 1950 the flute was increasingly used for section parts in jazz orchestras and thematic exhibitions, ensuring a totally new sound for the time, but only twenty-two solos were recorded in those years.
The pursuit of beautiful soundin our instrument passes, in addition to the taste of the performer and the fashions dictated by the great names of the moment, for the different ways of posing the moving parts that, between the instrument and the instrumentalist, play a decisive role in defining the timbre, i.e. the quality of the sounds produced. Moving…
di Onorio Zaralli E’ una questione delicata, ma troppo fondamentale per non essere affrontata.Partiamo da una dichiarazione di Arturo Toscanini: a chi gli chiese, un giorno, “Maestro, qual è il suo stile?”, Toscanini rispose “Il mio stile è quello degli autori che dirigo: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven”. Perfetto. Il punto è proprio questo: il musicista ha un dovere “etico”, quello…
di Onorio Zaralli Tra i tanti programmi realizzati appositamente per l’audio editing quello che proponiamo è gratuito, semplice da usare e molto efficace: si chiama AUDACITY. Vediamo di scoprirne insieme le principali funzioni. Questa è l’interfaccia con la quale il programma si presenta; accertiamoci che, dall’elenco a discesa sulla destra, sia selezionata la voce “volume mic”. In effetti, altre…
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