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Costellata da rotture radicali con la tradizione, la storia della musica coincide con le esistenze spesso tumultuose di personalità che hanno rivoluzionato il nostro modo di «ascoltare il mondo», dandogli una forma e un senso sempre diversi. In un itinerario affascinante nelle segrete «stanze della musica», con divagazioni storiche, letterarie e poetiche, l’autore fa rivivere la Venezia di Monteverdi, la Lipsia di Bach, la Parigi di Gabriel Fauré e la New York di Igor Stravinskij, le atmosfere della Mitteleuropa di Haydn e della Russia del primo Rachmaninov, in un appassionante viaggio tra amori folli e imprese ardite, debiti verso maestri e cruenti parricidi..

Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano Since the 19th century, La Scala Theater Orchestra has played important roles outside its main function of accompanying operas at the city's La Scala Opera House. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the orchestra has been led at one time or another by most of Italy's most prestigious conductors. La Scala Theater Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala) was recognized for its exceptional quality as it performed at the world premiere of operas by Rossini and Verdi in the 19th century, originally with the first violinist, or, in the very early years, the harpsichordist, as the leader. The orchestra's first conductor was Alberto Mazzucato, who ascended the podium in 1854. His successor Franco Faccio instituted independent concerts in 1872, and the orchestra appeared in Paris during the Exposition Universelle in 1878, one of the first major world's fairs. That triumph led to the establishment of a Società Orchestrale della Scala, which put the group on a firmer institutional footing. Offering two concert seasons annually, the orchestra stimulated the growth of instrumental music in Italy, formerly heavily dominated by opera.

Profeti della Quinta makes its Linn debut with a unique programme of Italian madrigals, instrumental pieces and Hebrew prayers by Salomone Rossi (c.1570-c.1630). The programme encompasses Rossi's many-faceted talents both as a court composer in the service of the Gonzaga family and as a unique innovator of devotional music for the synagogue. The award-winning a-cappella ensemble, comprising five core male singers, is joined for this recording by Katya Polin and Eva Saladin (violin) and Ori Harmelin and Ryosuke Sakamoto (theorbo). The native Hebrew speaking singers specialize in the music of the Italian Baroque and have an immediate connection to Rossi as a Jewish Italian composer.

Profeti della Quinta (Prophets of the Perfect Fifth) is a male vocal ensemble, specializing in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Founded in the Galilee region of Israel by Elam Rotem, the ensemble is currently based in Basel, Switzerland, where its members undertook advanced studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The core of the ensemble includes countertenor, tenor and bass singers, who perform either a-cappella or together with period instruments such as theorbo and harpsichord.

L'elefante africano è un'icona del continente, ma l'allarme sul suo rapido declino è sempre più forte. Eppure, se da un lato c'è chi denuncia il drammatico rischio di estinzione della specie, dall'altro c'è chi avverte che gli elefanti sono addirittura troppi. Parliamo dello stesso animale? Chi ha ragione e che cosa si cela dietro la questione degli elefanti in Africa? "Il destino degli elefanti rappresenta un contributo notevole alla letteratura sulla conservazione" (dalla prefazione di Vesta Eleuteri)