Matteo Manfredini

Matteo Myderwyk's new album Wintersleep is an intimate take on holiday favorites, recorded on a solo upright piano. A perfect homely album to help settle in for Christmas.

This exceptional recording was made using three original instruments that belonged to Paganini himself: the powerful 1743 Guarneri del Gesù violin; a six-string guitar by Ory, Paris, dated 1797; and a magnificent 1736 Stradivari cello, property of the Nippon Music Foundation and entrusted to Clemens Hagen, cellist of the Hagen Quartet. The three instruments are played together for the first time on this release. It was Giulio Plotino who conceived this project and took upon himself the difficult task of reuniting the three instruments. Indeed, this unique recording would not have been possible without him.

Sparks fly as fuzz-drenched, hard-rock guitars blaze in anthemic synchronicity, igniting masculine dreams of open highways and dragon-slaying battles fueled by raw, determined vocals, driving drums, cinematic sound design, and grooving basslines.

…Is there some possibility that these wizards have been wrong with regard to what they saw I asked. I can't explain how but there is no way for the wizards to be wrong in what they see. Don Juan said in a tone that was not admitting argument.Now then the conclusions to which they come as result of seeing can be erroneous probably due to the fact that they are ingenuous not instructed. In order to avoid this disaster the wizards must cultivate their mind in the most formal way that they can.

Sparks fly as fuzz-drenched, hard-rock guitars blaze in anthemic synchronicity, igniting masculine dreams of open highways and dragon-slaying battles fueled by raw, determined vocals, driving drums, cinematic sound design, and grooving basslines.

This exceptional recording was made using three original instruments that belonged to Paganini himself: the powerful 1743 Guarneri del Gesù violin; a six-string guitar by Ory, Paris, dated 1797; and a magnificent 1736 Stradivari cello, property of the Nippon Music Foundation and entrusted to Clemens Hagen, cellist of the Hagen Quartet. The three instruments are played together for the first time on this release. It was Giulio Plotino who conceived this project and took upon himself the difficult task of reuniting the three instruments. Indeed, this unique recording would not have been possible without him.

“In summer 2021, I moved from Amsterdam to the edge of Holland’s largest nature reserve called ‘Veluwe’. We wanted to live our lives more in peace and nature and were looking for a less hurried life than in the crowded and busy city.

“In summer 2021, I moved from Amsterdam to the edge of Holland’s largest nature reserve called ‘Veluwe’. We wanted to live our lives more in peace and nature and were looking for a less hurried life than in the crowded and busy city. During my daily walks in my new area, the idea soon arose to dedicate a new collection of piano compositions to this beautiful forest.

This was my first encounter with the music of Amy Beach, an American pianist and composer of the early 1900s. I was thunderstruck by it. I asked fellow European and American musicians, pianists, conductors, soloists and musicologists who gravitate around my Theater (Teatro alla Scala, Milano) if they had any information on her, but to no avail. No one knew her.