R e c i t a l s
Programs 2009-2012


1. Beethoven

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


2. Hymne a la Nuit

Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe, op.133
Crumb: Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (or Carter: Night Fantasies)
Liszt: Hymne à la nuit - Hymne du Matin
Sciarrino: Notturni nn. 1 e 3 (or Szymanowski: Sheherazade)
Bartók: Im Freien


3. 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


4. France

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


5. Two American Masterpieces

Ives: Concord Sonata
Adams: Phrygian Gates


6. L’altra Italia

Scelsi: Quattro Illustrazioni
Togni: Capriccio n. 5 Omaggio a Bellini
Castaldi: Left
Chessa: Quadri da una città fantasma (select)
Sciarrino: 2 Notturni
Tosi (o altro autore italiano)


7. 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


8. Progetto Americans

The project features 6/9 recitals that works like a journey through american piano music. Of course it’s possible to create different combinations, or choose just one program.

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)

(Music composed, mostly for Emanuele Arciuli, by Native American Composer or Inspired to Native Americans)

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)

It’s possible to add music composed by Jerome Kitzke and Kyle Gann.

It’s possible to play this program in combination with video projection of greek visual artist Chrissa Tsovili.

**composed for 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

9. Don't open!!!
You could find all those things you ever wanted to hear but were afraid to ask...
The most grotesque, bizarre and unusual music from the 19th century until today.

With the partecipation of Davide Livermore


1. The Heroic

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. The Erotic

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. The Heretic

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. The Exotic

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