Piano R e c i t a l s
Programs 2011-2012


Songs/Canciones (from Medieval Song to Radiohead)
John Dowland: Now, O now, I need must part (arr. P. Grainger) 3’
Beatles (J. Lennon):
Michelle (arr. Barbara Monk) 3’
Radiohead:
Knives Out, Exit Music for a Film, Thinking You (arr. O’ Riley) 12’
Luciano Berio:
Folk Songs Suite (arr. F. Antonioni) 10’
Hector Villa Lobos:
Choros (Alma Brasileira) 5’
Claudio Santoro:
3 Faixas 5’
Federigo Mompou:
Cançons I Danses (n. 6) 3’
Carlos Jobim:
Eliza (arr. Fred Hersch) 5’
George Gershwin:
The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm 6’
Robert Helps:
Hommage à Fauré 4’
Frederic Rzewski:
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues 10’


Gates to Everywhere
Robert Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe op. 133
Robert Schumann: Sonata op. 14 Concert sans Orchestre
Franz Joseph Haydn:
Variationen in F moll
Francesco Antonioni:
Gates to Everywhere – 3 Preludi Diatonici
Bela Bartók:
Im Freien


Five Versions of Darkness
Robert Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe op. 133
Elliott Carter:
Night Fantasies (or George Crumb: Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik)
Franz Liszt:
Hymne à la nuit; Hymne du matin
Salvatore Sciarrino:
Nocturnes nn. 1, 3
Bela Bartók:
Im Freien


L’altraItalia
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Illustrazioni
Camillo Togni: Capriccio n. 5 Omaggio a Bellini
Paolo Castaldi: Left
Luciano Chessa:
Quadri da una città fantasma (select)
Salvatore Sciarrino:
2 Notturni

Giorgio Tosi (o altro) autore italiano)


From Beethoven to Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg: Klavierstück op. 11 n. 2 (arr. F. Busoni)
Arnold Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke op. 19
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata op. 110
Alban Berg:
Sonata op. 1
Robert Schumann:
Sonata op. 14 Concert sans Orchestre


American Contemporary Music Recitals:
People United Will Never Be Defeated
Frederic Rzewski: 36 Variations on “People United”


Two American Masterpieces
Charles Ives: Sonata n. 2 Concord - Massachusetts 1840-1860
John Adams: Phrygian Gates


Transcending Nature
James Tenney: Essay (after a Sonata - with respect to the Concord Sonata by Charles Ives)**
Raven Chacon: 
Ni[chi’ Shada’ji Nalaghali (Winds that Turns on the Side from the Sun) for amplified piano and electronic sounds
Barbara Croall:
Gichi-Gamiing (Lake Superior) - world premiere - 
Charles Ives:
Sonata n. 2 Concord - Massachusetts 1840-1860


Red Mountains
John Cage: Dream – In a Landscape
Morton Feldman:
Palais de Mari
Raven Chacon: Nichi Shadaji Nalaghali (or Barbara Croall: Gichi-Gamiing)
John Luther Adams:
Among Red Mountains
Peter Garland:
Walk in Beauty


Indian Gallery
A new collection of piano music composed for Emanuele Arciuli and inspired to native american art. Composers: John Luther Adams, Michael Daugherty, Kyle Gann, Peter Garland, Marc Neikrug, Huang Ruo, Morton Subotnick.


Ives Project
Charles Ives: 15 Songs (with baritone)
Charles Ives:
Sonata Concord-Massachussets 1840-1860




Altri Progetti:

1. Beethoven
Bagattelle op. 33
Sonata op. 110
Variazioni op. 34
Sonata op. 111



2. Liszt - Grieg - Schumann
Liszt:
Hymne à la nuit - Hymne du Matin
Grieg:
Six lyric pieces
Schumann:
Gesänge der Frühe op. 133
Schumann: Sonata op. 14 Concert sans Orchestre


3. France
Debussy:
Preludes Ier livre
Ravel:
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Satie: 3
Gymnopedies - Embryons Dessechès
Poulenc:
Melancolie - 3 Nouvelettes - 3 Pieces (Pastorale, Hymne, Toccata)


4. Britannia! From Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to Today
Adès:
Traced Overhead
Dowland - Byrd:
Pavana Lachrymae, dal Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Cardew:
The Croppy Boy e Father Murphy
Anonimo:
Barafostous' Dream, dal Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Birtwistle:
Harrison's Clocks nn. 4 e 5
Davies:
Yesnaby Ground
Byrd:
Gypseis Round, dal Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Skempton: selezione da
Short Pieces
Munday:
Robin, dal Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Fitkin:
Relent


5. Progetto Americans
Progetto che comprende 6/9 recitals che configurano un viaggio nella musica pianistica americana. È possibile creare diverse combinazioni e selezionare uno o più programmi.

1) The Ancestors

Carl Ruggles:
Evocations
Henry Cowell:
Aeolian Harp
Henry Cowell:
Tides of Manaunaun
George Gershwin:
Songbook (selection of three songs)
Charles Ives: Sonata n. 2
Concord-Massachussets

2) Exot(er)ic Music

John Cage:
Music of Changes III (or Two Pieces)
Morton Feldman: Piano Piece for Philip Guston
Lou Harrison: Sonatina
Morton Feldman: Intermission 6
John Cage:
In a Landscape
Alan Hovhaness: Allegro on a
Pakistan Lute Tune
Morton Feldman:
Palais de Mari

3) Minimal and Postminimal Music

Philip Glass:
Wichita Sutra Vortex
Tom Johnson:
Septaede
Terry Riley:
The Heaven Ladder Book 7 (selection)
John Adams:
China Gates
John Adams:
American Berserk
John Adams:
Phrygian Gates

4) Classicism

Virgil Thomson: Piano Sonata n. 3 on
White Keys for Gertrude Stein
Aaron Copland:
Four Blues
Roger Sessions:
From my Diary (excerpts)
Leonard Bernstein:
Two Anniversaries
Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata

5) Abstract and Blue

Henry Brant:
Four Traumatics
David Rakowski: Etudes:
Les Arbres Embués - Close enough for Jazz
Charles Wuorinen: Bagatelle
(Milton Babbitt:
Perspectives)
George Perle: Bagatelles
Yehudi Wyner: excerpts from
New Fantasies
Elliott Carter:
Night Fantasies

6) Postmodern

(William Albright:
The Machine Age, or John Harbison: selection from Occasional Pieces)
John Corigliano: Variations on an ostinato
David Del Tredici:
Opposite Attract (after Virgil Thomson)
George Crumb:
Processional
William Bolcom:
Hi Jinks / Hymne à l’Amour (from New Etudes)
Frederic Rzewski: Four Pieces, or Four North American Ballads (or a selection of the two collections)

7) Jazz Flavour around Midnight

Fred Hersch: Nocturne for the left hand alone
Carla Bley:
Romantic Notions (or Talib Rasul Hakim, Sound Gone)
Chick Corea:
Children’s Songs (10-20)
Round Midnight Variations: a collection of music composed for Emanuele Arciuli by major American composers.
I part:
Midnight Variations, featuring Frederic Rzewski, Milton Babbitt, Michael Daugherty
II part: George Crumb,
Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik for amplified Piano


8) Search for Anasazi (Native American Project  - World premiere)

(Musica composta, soprattutto per Emanuele Arciuli, da compositori nativi americani, o ispirata ai nativi americani)

Louis W. Ballard (Quapaw-Cherokee):
Osage Variation (4')
George Quincy (Choktaw): 
The Release of the Choctaw Fire Bird  (10')**
George Quincy:
The Dream
George Quincy:
The Fire Bird on Wing
George Quincy:
I’ve done It
Dawn Avery (Mohawk):
New Work **
Brent Michael Davids (Mohican): 
Fishing in the Milky Way (5)**
Brent Michael Davids:
Sky Bear Toccata (3)**
John Luther Adams: 
Among Red Mountains (10)
John Luther Adams:
Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) (7)
Barbara Croall (Odawa):
Mazhenaabikiniganing Aagawong (Inscription Rock) (6)**
Raven Chacon (Navajo-Dineh): 
Nilchi’ Shada’ji Nalaghali (‘winds that turn on the side from the sun’ ) for piano and electronic sounds (8’)**
Peter Garland:
Walk in Beauty (18)

È possibile integrare con musica composta da Jerome Kitzke e Kyle Gann.

È possibile suonare questo programma in combinazione con videoproiezioni dell'artista visuale greca Chrissa Tsovili.

**composta per E. Arciuli


9) New Waves, New Scenes, New Variety
A selection amongst these and other new works:

Derek Bermel:
Three Funk Studies
Martin Brody:
Apparitions (excerpts)
John Zorn:
Dead Ringer
Lois Vierk:
To stare Astonished at the Sea
William Duckworth:
Time Curves Preludes (I book)
Joel Hoffman: selection from
Each from Himself!
David First:
Planet
Eve Beglarian:
Miranda’s Kiss
David Lang:
Memory Pieces (a selection)
Michael Daugherty:
Venetian Blind


6. Non aprite quel cassetto!!!
Tutto quello che non avreste mai voluto ascoltare e non avete mai osato chiedere...
Il grottesco, il bizzarro, l’insolito nella musica per pianoforte tra Ottocento e recente passato
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Con la partecipazione di Davide Livermore

1. L’Eroico

Gaetano Braga: La leggenda valacca
Gioachino Rossini:
Danse siberienne
Salvatore Vitale (parole di Giulia D’Amore, morta vittima d’amore per Gesù – la madre è ancora vivente):
Mi sento tutta di Gesù
Carlo Florindo Semini:
Caccia di trogloditi, da Divertimento preistorico
Fritz Spindler:
La cavalcata degli ussari


2. L’Erotico

Cesare Sanfiorenzo: Il pianto di una fanciulla
Tecla Badarzewska:
La preghiera di una vergine polacca
Alfonso Cipollone:
L’uccellino vagante
Tecla Badarzewska:
La preghiera esaudita
Pietro Fasullo:
Valzer


3. L’Eretico

Claus Dieter Ludwig: Happy Birthday – humoristiches Variationen
Franco Casavola:
Ranocchie al chiaro di luna – tango viola (da Cabaret epilettico)
Giacomo Puccini:
Scossa elettrica (onoranze dei telegrafisti nel centenario della pila)
Rosemary Brown:
Notturno di Chopin (dettatole dal fantasma di Chopin in seduta spiritica - lei è una casalinga londinese)
Erik Satie:
Embrioni disseccati


4. L'Esotico

Enrico Mineo: Danza di odalisca
Vincenzo Billi:
Samurai – blues
Gioachino Rossini:
Petite polka chinoise
E. Di Capua - Max Oscheit:
Meine Sonne, populares neapolitaniches Volkslied ('O sole mio)
l.M. Gottschalk:
Pasquinade