I put on Julia Thomsen’s “Happy Days” at my kitchen table on a Tuesday morning, and I didn’t move for the entire five minutes. That’s the real test of a piece like this, isn’t it? Whether it stops you from doing whatever else you were meant to be doing. The track opens with such clarity…
Month: April 2026
Silent Sorrow: Antonio Di Fonzo’s Reckoning with Grief
It’s taken a few months for Antonio Di Fonzo’s “Silent Sorrow” to fully settle in, and I keep coming back to it. Released back in February on Stradivarius, this new composition marks the moment Di Fonzo fully steps into his own voice as a composer. The piece emerges from personal loss, and Di Fonzo channels…

