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