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17/06/2025

Igor Stravinsky at the castel of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa

17/06/2025

Marc Chagal and Igor Stravinsky

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17/06/2025

Mstislav Rostropovich & Igor Stravinsky - 1962

17/06/2025

Happy Birthday Igor Stravinsky 🎉🍾🍀

A touch of genius for your walls with the new art and music drawings by Agostino Vitolo with Fuoriseriehub for History of Music and Art - Get it 👇

17/06/2025

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) French composer (Faust; Le Médecin malgré lui; Funeral March of a Marionette), was born in Paris

16/06/2025

Carlos Kleiber in New York - 1934

16/06/2025

🎷 Yellowjackets & WDR Big Band – Downtown 🎷

From the acclaimed project "Jackets XL – Yellowjackets & WDR Big Band", two outstanding ensembles renew their decade-long collaboration with a powerful new performance.

Following the release of One Day, here comes "Downtown" – a vibrant composition by Russell Ferrante, arranged for big band by the renowned Vince Mendoza, chief composer of the WDR Big Band and a true icon in orchestral jazz.

Solo by: 🎸 Dane Alderson – electric bass

Recorded in November 2019 at WDR Studio 4 in Cologne, the piece blends the unmistakable Yellowjackets sound with the power and rich textures of a world-class big band.
A modern jazz statement, full of color and energy.

What we share here is just a short excerpt watch the full video on the official WDR Big Band YouTube Channel:
👉 Watch Downtown (Official Video)

16/06/2025

🎷 A legendary moment at the Montreux Jazz Festival! 🎷
A rare and precious clip from Casino Lights, recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1981, featuring the Yellowjackets in one of their earliest lineups.

🎹 Russell Ferrante – keys
🎸 Robben Ford – guitar
🎸 Jimmy Haslip – bass
🥁 Ricky Lawson – drums
🪘 Lenny Castro – percussion

Captured in July 1981, this live performance showcases the energy and elegance of a band destined to make jazz fusion history.

The clip features a long and stunning solo, beginning with an inspired guitar improvisation by Robben Ford, followed by an intense and refined piano solo from Russell Ferrante.
A truly breathtaking musical dialogue.

Watch the full clip and experience a performance that helped shape the sound of a generation.

16/06/2025

Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni

16/06/2025

1941 Dino Ciani, Italian pianist, was born in Fiume, Italy (d. 1974)

Dino Ciani (16 June 1941 – 28 March 1974) was an extraordinarily gifted Italian pianist celebrated for his wide-ranging repertoire and poetic artistry. Born in Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia), he quickly advanced in his studies—earning his conservatory diploma in Rome at just 14 and refining his craft under the legendary Alfred Cortot in Paris, Lausanne, and Siena .

After winning second prize at the prestigious Liszt‑Bartók Competition in Budapest (1961), Ciani performed across Europe and the U.S.—including Carnegie Hall, La Scala (under Claudio Abbado), and Kennedy Center. His repertoire spanned Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy (complete Préludes), Weber (first complete sonatas recording, 1967), Schumann, Bach, Bartók, among others .

Tragically, Ciani’s rising star was extinguished on 27/28 March 1974, when he died in a car accident on the Via Flaminia near Rome at just 32 years old. His final performance, Beethoven’s Third Concerto under Carlo Maria Giulini, had taken place days earlier in Chicago/Milwaukee .

His passing was mourned across the classical music world as a “terrible loss” and “one of the greatest tragedies” of the 1970s . To honor his legacy, the Dino Ciani International Piano Competition was established in 1975 at La Scala, and since 2002 concerts have celebrated his artistry in Ranco/Angera and Cortina d’Ampezzo, where he is honored and buried .

Although his life was brief, Ciani left a profound legacy—from Beethoven sonatas to Weber preludes, Debussy, and Bartók—forever cherished by pianists, scholars, and audiences alike.

15/06/2025

When Germany invaded France in 1914 Ravel attempted to join the French Air Force. He considered his small stature and light weight ideal for an aviator but was rejected due to age and a minor heart condition. While awaiting enlistment, Ravel composed Trois Chansons, his only work for a capella choir, based on his own texts, written in the tradition of 16th-century French chansons. He dedicated the three songs to people who could help him enlist. After several failed attempts to enlist, Ravel finally entered the Thirteenth Regiment of Artillery as a truck driver in March 1915, when he was forty. Stravinsky expressed admiration for his friend's courage: "at his age and with his name he could have had an easier place, or done nothing". Some of Ravel's duties put him in mortal danger carrying ammunition at night under heavy German bombardment. At the same time his serenity was compromised by his mother's health which was getting worse. His health had also deteriorated; he suffered from insomnia and digestive problems, in September 1916 he had an intestinal operation following amoebic dysentery and the following winter he suffered from frostbite in his feet. During the war Saint-Saëns, Dubois, d'Indy and others formed the Ligue Nationale pour la Defense de la Musique Française campaigning to ban the performance of contemporary German music. Ravel refused to join arguing that it would have been "dangerous for French composers to systematically ignore the productions of their foreign colleagues and thus constitute themselves in a sort of national coterie: our musical art, which is so rich at the present moment, would soon degenerate, remaining isolated in trivial formulas". The league responded by banning Ravel's music from his concerts. Ravel's mother died in January 1917 and he fell into "horrible despair", compounding the anguish he felt at the suffering suffered by the people of his country during the war. Ravel composed some of his most significant works during the war years including Le tombeau de Couperin, composed between 1914 and 1917. The suite celebrates the tradition of François Couperin, the 18th century French composer; each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who died in the war.

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