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
Other
projects:
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
The project
features 6/9 recitals that works like a journey through
american piano music. Of course it is 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 is possible to add music composed by Jerome
Kitzke and Kyle Gann.
It is 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
6.
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