It is commonly mentioned that music is an summary artwork, however maybe the definition is improper: music might be the childhood reminiscence of an imposing mountain, or the mysterious cowl of a vinyl or the video of a histrionic conductor at work.
That is what the essayist and music critic Stefano Russomanno has come to inform us in his latest e-book ‘The muse in ear’, edited by Fórcola and which has the clarifying subtitle ‘Musicians and musicians that modified my life’.
This work is greater than a biographical essay. It is a hymn to classical music. One approach of understanding it that has to do with the id of every one in every of us. Already within the quote that opens the e-book, Zen grasp Shunryu Suzuki warns us: “When one thing impresses you, that one thing is yourselves.”
And who has not ever had the sensation of excellent communion with what they love? Gustav Mahler recounted that when he composed or listened to music he had all the things very clear, however when the sound ceased he was a sea of doubts.
Russomanno explains that music -daughter of the Muses- is probably not greater than reminiscence or accumulation of recollections. Our previous could also be nothing greater than music. Just because the Pythagoreans believed within the concord of the celebrities, maybe there’s a musical essence in every of us.
In the case of the writer, his musical recollections undergo the file shops in Ferrara, the hanging covers of his first Deutsche Grammophon vinyl data and a serial on the lifetime of Verdi that aired on Italian tv within the 80s.
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We all have our musical biography, nevertheless it runs amok within the case of the music lover. The music woke up arcane in Russomanno about which he has not stopped inquiring. After learning Musicology he turned a researcher and music critic. In Spain, he was the musical supervisor of ABC Cultural for 20 years and lately he has been chief editor of Scherzo (after the dying of the admired Eduardo Torrico).
With his privileged ear, Russomanno reveals why Herbert von Karajan is treasured, why Carlos Kleiber suffered a lot, why Giuseppe Verdi is a “genital musician”, what makes Ricardo Muti totally different from Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Pollini from Ivo Pogorelich, what the rests of the Japanese flute conceal and why he shuddered when he heard the Soviet violinist David Oistrach for the primary time.
A warning: it’s a e-book that’s interrupted at every step. It forces the reader to take heed to what he reads on his disco or cell machine. But the hassle is value it. In the long term, musical discoveries will type a part of our recollections. They will not be summary matter, however a part of our life.
For Russomanno, music is just like the mountains of his childhood. Something that rises up, surrounds you and protects you.
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