GRooVE back magazine n.002/24

GRooVE back magazine | bimonthly | Year 1 | Issue 002

GRooVE back magazine is available in both print and digital ( free) versions. In the digital download version, you'll find two PDFs of the magazine: one single-page and one facing-page ; you can choose the PDF that best fits your device. The single-page version is interactive: from the cover to the table of contents, from the various articles to the advertisements, you'll find numerous links to external sites. You can also view the magazine in flipbook format here ◉

Editorial by Andrea Bedetti

When we decided to launch this new magazine, our first thought, obvious and inevitable in these cases, was to hope it would spark interest among lovers of good music—be it classical, jazz, rock, or singer-songwriter—and among those who want to listen to it with the quality and fidelity it deserves. A magazine that, unlike others in the sector already on the market, would be completely free for the reader, downloadable in high-resolution PDF format, or printed as a niche, elegant, luxurious product, purposely intended for those who wish to collect a valuable periodical that will last over time.

Well, while the print version of the first issue of GRooVEback Magazine received widespread acclaim and praise, as well as a significant number of copies sold through the direct sales channel on our website, the free PDF version has surpassed 3,200 certified downloads. Let's be clear, it's a truly unexpected success, exceeding our wildest expectations. This is a sign that, beyond the curiosity fueled by the novelty of the fateful "number one," a constant buzz has been unleashed among enthusiasts, a constant word of mouth from those who downloaded the PDF, recommending and encouraging friends and acquaintances, music lovers and audiophiles, to do the same.

Aware and further encouraged by this auspicious success, here we are with the second issue of the magazine, featuring on the cover an elderly face, seemingly sculpted by time, exuding wisdom and knowledge. We felt this was the ideal portrait to represent a giant of classical music, Anton Bruckner, on the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth. We have dedicated an article to him that, in addition to presenting a sort of updated summary of his figure and his work, so neglected and misunderstood in the past, also aims to provide a sort of introductory guide to the formidable corpus of his symphonies.

Still in the classical field, I invite you to read two contributions: one by Giovanni Acciai, one of the world's leading early music scholars, on a Neapolitan composer from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the unjustly forgotten Antonio Domenico Nola, and one by Edmondo Filippini on a black musician from the early twentieth century in Britain, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Not to mention an interview, iconoclastic to say the least, in which an Italian composer, David Fontanesi, unequivocally attacks that contemporary music that has forgotten and killed the natural concept of Beauty.

Entering the realm of rock music, Pippo Basile reveals a little-known chapter in Queen's career, focusing on the recordings the English band made for the BBC between 1973 and 1977, later compiled into a single recording, On Air - The Complete BBC Radio Session , which quickly became a cult classic. A new author, jazz scholar and critic Francesco Cataldo Verrina, introduces us to the work of a great but ill-fated trumpeter, Lee Morgan, examining three of his legendary albums.

The section dedicated to quality listening presents, among other things, an article that examines the ZE Reference power cables, the fruit of the work and passion of a craftsman from Vercelli, Ernesto Villani, designed to embellish and enhance Hi-End listening systems, without forgetting the new technological frontiers, those intended for so-called liquid music, with two devices, the Lindemann Musicbook Source II and the Str@mbo, capable of satisfying the palates of streaming enthusiasts .

Happy reading everyone!

The Summary
7 Editorial
10 Our CD to download: ten tracks from the Velut Luna 2024 catalog
18 Anton Bruckner, the great misunderstood
34 Beyond Barriers: The Life and Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
40 To an artist…
42 That time the “Queen” went to the BBC studios
46 Antonio Domenico Nola: a protagonist of seventeenth-century Naples
52 Wheels of Fire, the masterpiece of British white blues
56 Revolt against contemporary music
64 Francesco Libetta, an aristocratic prince of the keyboard in Milan
70 Lee Morgan: a phenomenon, in some ways, still to be discovered
78 Ernani, an unfairly misrepresented work
82 I/O by Peter Gabriel
86 Nino Rota away from celluloid
92 Cultivating Melancholy: English Music in the 16th and 17th Centuries
96 The refined intellectualism of Vijay Iyer
100 Reference ZE, in the Olympus of power cables
106 Lindemann Musicbook Source II
110 Avyra 622, a new star in the Morel firmament
116 Mini Caravaggio, an amplifier artist
122 The Str@mbo, an Italian streamer
126 Bruckner according to Zignani