Premio Abbiati 2011 as best soloist of the year, Emanuele Arciuli is a pianist in love with America and his music: his interest has been realized in a book, Piano Music in the United States(Edt) and in numerous lessons, both radio and that television. With American Landscapesproposes a journey through American music, using five different keyboards: the piano, the electric piano, the toy piano, the harpsichord, the prepared piano. A succession of authors, from John Cage and Philip Glass to John Adams and Harold Budd, for a unique project, which unites the spectacular and visual component, a surprising variety of languages, styles and compositional techniques. But above all it offers a choice of the highest compositional quality, with intense, direct, communicative, intelligent works.
PROGRAM
John Adams, China Gates for piano
Henry Cowell, Set of Four (excerpts) for harpsichord amplified
John Cage, Suite for Toy Piano
John Cage, The Perilous Night for piano prepared
John Philip Glass, Etude # 2
Kyle Gann, Fractured Paradise for keyboard
Julia Wolfe sampler , East Broadway for piano toy and magnetic tape
Harold Budd, Children on the Hill for electric piano and harmonizer
Alan Hovhaness, Dark River and Distant Bell
Frederic Rzewski, Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues for piano