Uto Ughi

Attraverso una selezione di autori e di brani amati nel corso di una carriera che rimane esemplare per dedizione alla musica e allo strumento che lo accompagna come un inseparabile altro sé stesso, Ughi – qui con la collaborazione del pianismo sensibile e reattivo di Andrea Bacchetti – compone tra Seicento e Novecento un viaggio del cuore e della memoria.

Fonè Records Shop, the shop of the historic Italian label for more than 30 years in high fidelity. Vinyls, Super Audio CD, CD Gold, Digital Hd, Analog Master Tapes between classical music, jazz and pop. More than 200 productions in stock and out of print, available in various physical formats, but also in His res music. Fonè records offers more than thirty years of recordings made in the name of the advanced techniques, aimed to the recovery of the original musical atmosphere without any signal electronic manipulation or artificial correction.

A variety of artists, ensembles and orchestras offer music from JS Bach (Cello Suite), via Franz Schubert (String Quartet) and Nicolò Paganini to Gustav Mahler (Symphony). Altogether, as the album’s title implies: Must Have Classic Recordings. This is pure DSD recording. As no editing has been made, all the tracks on this record are heard as they were performed.

Even though Cristina Ortiz has been resident in Europe for many years, it is the passion, spontaneity and allure so characteristic to her Brazilian cultural heritage, which is central to her music making. Dominating a broad range of solo and concerto repertoire, she now adds the role of chamber musician ever more important in her make-up as a truly complete artist.

Bruno Bettinelli (Milan 1913-2004), the MAESTRO dei MAESTRI completed his musical studies at the Conservatory G. Verdi of Milan, receiving his diploma in Composition and Conducting, Piano, Choral Music, Choir Direction and Vocal Polyphony. He was Professor of Composition at the same Conservatory. Many internationally famous musicians have studied with him: Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Pollini, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Canino, , Uto Ughi among others. He has composed symphonic music (seven Symphonies), three operas, choral works and chamber music. He has won many national and international prizes for compositions.

Shoji was born in Tokyo into an artistic family (her mother is a painter; her grandmother, a poet) and spent her early childhood in Siena, Italy.