The Almonac Posted by Ricordi In his blog “The Almonac” Henrik Almon, library manager at Ricordi Berlin, presents works from the publishers’ inexhaustible repertoire that are worth hearing straight away yet are rather seldom to be found in the programming of the major opera houses and orchestras. The Almonac articles Chopinesque Choros: Villa-Lobos’s fifth piano concerto Top 10 Pandemic-Proof Concert Pieces Coronöser Balsam – Tansmans Bric-à-brac (in German) Venetian Visions? – Stravinsky’s Le Roi des étoiles Fragile Maturity – Zemlinsky’s Symphony in D minor The author Henrik Almon has been responsible since 2013 for the rental department of Ricordi Berlin. Since then, he has constantly been rummaging through the labyrinthine entanglements of 200 years of publishing history, music archives scattered across Europe, analog and digital data banks as well as cryptic messages concerning the delivery of shipped parcels. Prior to his life at Ricordi, Henrik Almon virtuously completed a rock-solid business course before plunging into the academic depths of musicology, media studies and literature. His studies took him from Weimar and Jena via Paris to Brazil, where he worked for a time as a piano teacher. An enduring passion for Brazilian composers culminated in 2018 in the completion of his dissertation “Discourses on Art-Music in Brazil in the First Half of the 20th Century”. Outside of Ricordi he continues to be an ardent violinist in one of the many Berlin university orchestras. Illustration: Marie Louise James