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An unmistakable and original artistic personality whose lesson should be remembered and reconsidered today.

"You are far from God, you should get closer to Him". 

With this words Maria Judina addressed Igor Stravinsky. 

They accidentally met in a cemetery and she was bent to the ground. 

Maria Judina (Nevel, 1899 - Moscow, 1970), even today rather unknown in the Western countries, looks like an " old believer", with strong and anachronistic mystical and religious …

When the genius of Chopin begins to manifest itself? The Trio of this early composition could reveal us something.

When the genius of Chopin begins to manifest itself?

In the month on July, 1826 Chopin, he was 16 years old, writes a b-flat minor Polonaise that belongs entirely to the so called Biedermeier stilistic world. 

The first episode is influenced by the brilliant and whimsical ornamentation of composers such as Dussek, Hummel, Ries, …

Horowitz's supreme virtuosity gives the idea of ​​a game, not a struggle: with him the essence of virtuosity reappeared. 

"Only success can absolve me. And is right the success that condemns me to their eyes." 

Thus Liszt wrote in 1839 to Marie d'Agoult, who had told him about concerns expressed on him by Chopin and Berlioz. 

The success for Horowitz bursts like a bomb in 1926: in Hamburg, then in Paris, then in …

From the representation of beauty we have passed to the communication of the most intimate and profound emotions. 

The modernist ideology that guided the interpretation of music in the second half of the twentieth century tried in every way to understand the will and the intentions of the author so that the interpreter would carry them out scrupulously and faithfully. 

Today, in the first half of the following century, this ideology is …

A surprising performance where the suspension of time is the discovery of a dreamlike and surreal dimension.

In a letter to his family written the 25th of July 1825 Schubert wrote: "The variations of my new two hands Sonata were very appreciated. I performed them alone and not without merit. Some people assured me that the piano keys became singing voices under my fingers, and that, if true, makes me very pleased …