… 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...
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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...
On absolute music
Richard Wagner and interpretations of a nineteenth century paradigm
…By the way, the very recent Wagner’s interpretation presented by the musician and philosopher, Aurelio Canonici, in Musica e Sofía [Music and Sophia] was intriguing… Elio Matassi, Amadeus, november 2009
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The 20th Century Flew Over the Swallow’s Nest
…The highlight, following tradition, was registered on the night of St. Lawrence with the dawn concert: 4.15 am, a thousand people muffled up against the cold in the marvellous gardens of the Villa Rufolo in order to be present at the performance by the “G. Verdi...
“Concerto all’Alba” always a winner
Excellent result of the “Savaria Symphony” Orchestra conducted by Maestro Aurelio Canonici
…There was a standing ovation for Maestro Aurelio Canonici and for the Hungarian “Savaria Symphony” Orchestra for their generous effort. With the usual encore of “Morning Mood” by Grieg…and after the moving surprise encore of “Aura”, composed by Maestro Canonici…the...
The “Concerto all’Alba” in Villa Rufolo: You Would be Crazy Not to Go
…Aurelio Canonici, who has, for a number of years, been the conductor of the prestigious symphonic section of the Ravello Festival, put himself in the front lines by guiding the orchestra in Villa Rufolo, proposing captivating programs…The Prelude to the I Act of...
From Brahms to Contemporary Music
…The young Italian Maestro Aurelio Canonici has elegantly and beautifully directed the musicians of the “Arpeggione” Orchestra, who were then able to demonstrate their class.…Cradling and soaring, even the famous “Liebesliederwalzer” by Brahms sounded fresh and...