(Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia…) It is inevitable that in the bicentenary of the “first” of the Barbiere someone would want to reread the actuality. The orchestra conductor and composer Aurelio Canonici and the professor of literature Marcello Teodonio...
Between Earth and Heaven
“Between Earth and Heaven” is the latest album by Aurelio Canonici, a world-famous orchestra conductor and composer. Featuring outstanding musicians like Paola Biondi and Debora Brunialti at the pianos, the Mascoulisse Quartet at trombones, and Maurizio Ben Omar at...
Great finale
… There have been many concerts during the Festival, but for me this was the best until now, with singers from the Far East, Korea and Japan. The performers have collaborated with the excellence of the Sinfonietta Cracovia and of the Polish Radio Choir....
Orestiadi di Gibellina – “Visioni”
… But music materializes in every human being that becomes vibration, finding the sense of expectation, harmony, love, singing of the universe; and here comes the relationship with “Between Earth and Heaven” by Aurelio Canonici, sound geometries that lead into a...
Masterful conclusion of the Opera Festival
The evening of Sunday, September 28, 2014 marked the end of the thirteenth edition of the Opera Festival in Sibiu with the awards ceremony and the gala concert of the winners of the singing competition “Vox Artis”. The awards gala, which focused on some of the most...
CD “Landscapes”
… This cd of real sound “landscapes” performed in a chamber, symphonic, atmospheric, baroque, folk way (…) has touched the very deepest part of me and flung a window open on a truly interesting, sensitive and enchanting original world of sound which lives on its own...
A Musical Dawn over Villa Rufolo, the magic is repeated at the Ravello Festival
The traditional “Dawn Concert” on the Villa Rufolo Belvedere in Ravello offered the “veteran” and a favourite with the Festival public, Aurelio Canonici, conducting the “Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti”… The opening of the concert is reserved for the invocation Jesce sole …...
The Villa Rufolo illuminated by the dawning of great symphonic music
…Canonici has confirmed that he is a meticulous explorer of the orchestral score, of the distinguishing aspects which connote its uniqueness and, at the same time, of those characteristics which place a piece of music into a stylistic and historical current.By...
The Dawn Concert at the Ravello Festival
…In this corner of Paradise sunrise is awaited, as every year, accompanied by music as part of one of the biggest and oldest artistic festivals, the Ravello Festival, during what is known internationally as “The Dawn Concert”… The concert, the symbolic event of the...
“Philosophical Issues in Richard Wagner’s opera”, the book by the musician and composer Aurelio Canonici
Discovering the “musician philosopher”
The book by the musician and composer Aurelio Canonici, “Problematiche filosofiche nell’opera di Richard Wagner” (Philosophical Issues in Richard Wagner’s opera) was presented amongst the many activities taking place at the Ravello Festival, this year dedicated to the...