PODCAST | Early Music Stories

Listen, and discover how rich and fascinating the world of Early Music is, with its protagonists and researchers that are specialized in what it is called Historical Performance Practice, and record production, books writing and historical instruments making.

They leaf through treatises, manuscripts, old printed anthologies, they examine carefully the iconography in which players and sometimes scores are painted, in search of the right sound to make fresh and new the music of centuries ago, and to portrait it in the frame of art and society of the past eras.They let themself be inspired to find out the most suitable ornamentation, trying to enter in the mind of the composer who created their own masterworks.

The series of podcasts in Italian, English, French and Spanish are realized by Paolo Scarnecchia for Il Giornale della Musica mainly behind the scenes, in the backstage where a concert is rehearsed and fine-tuned, trying to catch the atmosphere of the its refined musical craftsmanship, and each episode is preceded by a presentation article.