GRooVE back Magazine No. 004/25

GRooVE back Magazine No. 004/25 gives broad space to Keith Jarrett and the Köln Concert, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Steve Lacy, with Roberto Loreggian, Puccini, Mahler, Bach, reel-to-reel and Hi-Fi technology.

In this issue

Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is the starting point for an issue crossing jazz and classical music, from Palestrina to Frescobaldi, from Steve Lacy to Puccini, Mahler and Bach. On the audio side: phono, digital, reel-to-reel and the culture of Italian high fidelity.

Download album included

This issue includes the Birdbox Records Sampler 2025 download.

Available editions

Available as print + digital magazine + 1 download album, digital magazine + 1 download album, and a free PDF preview.

Contents

7 — Editorial
10 — Our CD: Birdbox Records
18 — Was the real Keith Jarrett the one from The Köln Concert?
26 — The Köln Concert, a “legend” born from adversity
30 — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, father of music for all time
38 — Yamada Kōsaku, the man who introduced classical music to Japan
44 — Recommended reading
50 — Roberto Loreggian, the man who turns the harpsichord into an orchestra
54 — Girolamo Frescobaldi, Roberto Loreggian’s musical “beacon”
56 — Steve Lacy, X-ray of a genius not always understood
64 — Puccini: an alternative discography
70 — Lorenzo Vella, when a child’s sonic dream becomes reality
76 — Alexander Tharaud restores Bach to the spirit
80 — Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies
86 — Eugenio Finardi takes on Vladimir Vysotsky
92 — Bach, the harpsichord and the Köthen and Leipzig periods
96 — Supermotor phono preamplifier
102 — Game over (?) Will the Hi-Fi game ever end?
110 — Discovering digital with an “archangel”
114 — Reel-to-reel: the wonders of reproduction
120 — Bartolomeo Aloia, the “Archimedes” of Italian Hi-Fi
126 — Inside Debussy’s magical cave

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