Giovanni Sollima
Giovanni Sollima (born 24 October 1962 in
Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
.
As a composer, Sollima's influences are wide ranging, taking in jazz and rock, as well as various ethnic traditions from the Mediterranean area.postminimalist composer.[2]
Sollima has collaborated with the American poet and musician
Silk Road Project
.
Music for chamber ensembles
- Musica per sonar a più stromenti dialogando fra antica et moderna (1979)
- Notturno (1980)
- Maithuna (1981)
- Orgy (1982)
- Tantra (1983)
- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas (1985)
- La luna (1986)
- Variazioni su un plastico (1986)
- 4 works by Andy Warhol (1987)
- 6 caprices (1987)
- Flowers (1987)
- Primo frammento da "Empedocles" (First fragment of Empedocles), text by Michele Perriera (1989)
- Siciliana con variazione (1989)
- E gli alberi germinarono, e gli uomini e le donne... (1990)
- In B (1991)
- Match Suite (1991)
- Segno in memory of the victims of the Capaci massacre (1992)
- Africa, quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos (1992)
- Anno uno in memory of the victims of the via D'Amelio massacre (1993)
- Violoncelles, vibrez! version for 6 cellos(1993)
- Heimat-terra (1993)
- The Songlines (1993)
- Angeli nel vulcano (1994)
- A gift (1994)
- Spasimo (1995)
- Sento il canto in curva (1995)
- Il Tracciato di Marta (1995)
- Voyage (1995)
- John Africa (1996)
- Studio per Aquilastro (1997)
- Chi è (1997)
- Lam (1997)
- Yafù (1997)
- Aquilarco, text by Christopher Knowles (1997–98)
- Lamentatio ("Lamentation") (1998)
- Pasolini fragments (1998)
- Reperto n. 12 from a fragment by Schubert (1998)
- S'ota love dance (1998)
- A view from the bottom, text by Mumia Abu Jamal(1998)
- Concerto rotondo (1998)
- I canti (1998)
- The meetings of the waters (1999)
- Millennium Bug (1999)
- Intersong I (1999)
- Subsongs (1999)
- L'interpretazione dei sogni (The interpretation of dreams) (1999)
- Leonardo's ornithoptherus (1999)
- Alone (1999)
- Hell (2000)
- Contrafactus (2000)
- Il Tracciato (2000)
- Viaggio in Italia, texts by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Giordano Bruno and Francesco Borromini(2000)
- Intersong II (2001)
- J. Beuys Song (2001)
- Vram, text by Alessandro Baricco (2002)
- Pillole (2002)
- Bêri (2002)
- Terra Aria from "B song" (2003)
- Terra Danza from "B song" (2003)
- Cello Tree from "B song" (2003)
- Il bell'Antonio, Tema III
Orchestral works
- Concerto grosso (1976)
- String concerto No. 1 (1978)
- String concerto No. 1 (1979)
- Raccapriccio (1979)
- Le Paradis Submergé (1981)
- Two Nocturnes (1984)
- Musivum (1987)
- Le notti bianche (1988)
- The Columbus Egg (1990)
- In B, version for Jazz Band (1991)
- Cello Concerto (1992)
- Africa (1992)
- Agnus Dei (1993)
- Violoncelles, vibrez! (1993)
- Sinfonia in luoghi aperti (Open Air Symphony) (1994)
- MW (1994)
- Angeli (Angels) (1994)
- Adagio (1995)
- Cartolina (Postcard) (1995)
- Aria in rosso (Aria in red) (1996)
- Lam & Dan (1998)
- All the W (1998)
- Guitar chemistry (1999)
- Alleluja (1999)
- Casanova (2000)
- Canti rocciosi, with texts by Dino Buzzati, Dante Alighieri, Ernest Hemingway and 'street rhymes' in Sicilian, Italian and Ladin (2001)
- Contrafactus (2001)
- Tempeste e ritratti (Storms and portraits) (2001)
Opera and ballet
- Notti di Grazia (1991) - Melodramma in un atto, libretto by Dario Oliveri
- Mittersill 101 variazioni sul caso Anton Webern (1996) - Video opera, text by Dario Oliveri, after Goethe
- Cenerentola Azzurro (1994) - Text by Dario Oliveri
- Casanova (2000) - Choreography by Karole Armitage
- Matteo Ricci — Li Madou (2001) - Melologue, text by Filippo Mignini
- J. Beuys song (2001) - Choreography by Carolyn Carlson
- Ellis Island (2002) - Opera in 2 acts, libretto by Roberto Alajmo
Incidental music for the theatre
- Match (1990)
- Cordelia & co. (1991)
- 3 pezzi for " Il sogno spezzato di Rita Atria" (1993)
- 3 pezzi for "Pippo Fava" (1994)
- I Pavoni (1997)
Installations
- Imagining Prometheus (2003)
- Luminaria (2003)
Discography (as composer)
- Aquilarco - Polygram Records - #462546 (1998)
- Spasimo - Agora - #216 (2000)
- John Africa in "La formula del fiore" - Sensible Records: SSB 012, (1999)
- Viaggio in Italia - Agorà (AG 259) (2000)
- Violoncelles, vibrez! - Agorà: AG 155. (1998)
- Violoncelles, vibrez! (on Tracing Astor: Gidon Kremer Plays Astor Piazzolla) - Nonesuch: 79601 (2001)
- Canti rocciosi - I suoni delle Dolomiti (2001)
- Works - Sony Music: DED 519769 2 (2005)[3]
- Heimat Terra, Fiddle Files (on The Magic of Wood: From Lutherie to Music) - Dynamic: 5092 (2005)
- We were trees - Sony/BGM 88697314382 (2008)
- Astrolabioanima - Odd Times Record: OTR 001 (2008)
- Sonnets et Rondeaux - Cobra Records: CBRA 35 (2012)
Notes
- ^ 'Giovanni Sollima' Archived 2011-05-25 at the Wayback Machine, silkroadproject.org. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ 'Explore music: post-minimalism', allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ Giovanni Sollima: Works, allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
The link posted that purports to be for Giovanni Sollima's (music) website is not for his website. Instead it will take you to the website of a health/cosmetics practitioner also called Giovanni Sollima.
External links
Video
- On 9 May 2007 Lasse Gjertsen released a two-part music video for two of Giovanni Sollima's pieces:
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