For Stefano Bollani, improvisation is a spontaneous, natural aptitude that he applies indifferently both to written music, always reinvented with overwhelming sonic imagination, and to unwritten music, governed by a rigorous compositional discipline. His recitals are never simple ‘concerts’, but real musical streams of consciousness that move, with total and uncompromising freedom, between Carosone and jazz, pop, Brazilian music and Italian song. Because improvising means knowing how to improvise.