Compositions
Edizioni Curci Milano
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Orchestra
– Sentieri della memoria for piano and chamber orchestra (2025) – 20′
– Grande Bagattella for orchestra 9′ (2023)
(2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 1, 3 perc, timp, harp, strings)
– Al gran cerchio d’ombra for strings- 12′ (2021)
(6, 6, 4, 4, 2 min.)
– Aiora for orchestra – 13′
(2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 1; 3 perc, timp, harp, cel, strings)
– La Gattomachia, musical tale for violin, narrator and strings.
Text by Orazio Sciortino on Lope de Vega’s La Gatomaquia. EDIZIONI CURCI – MILANO
– Sol Invictus per coro e orchestra (2016) – 20′
(2; 2; 2; 2; 4; 2; 3; timp; 2perc; choir, strings)
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– Notturno a Fedora per pianoforte e orchestra (2016) – 7’30”
(2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2; timp; strings)
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– Il viaggio di Er per orchestra (2015) – 13′
(2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2; timp; strings)
(3[picc.]; 3[C.i.]; 3[picc.]; 2; 1; 4; 3; 3; 1; timp; 3 perc; strings)
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– Veglia – Cima Quattro, il 23 dicembre 1915. for orchestra (2014) – 6′
(2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2; timp; 1 perc; strings)
– Innerlied for orchestra (2013-orch.2014) – 10′
(2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2; timp; 1 perc; strings)
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– Minute-Waltz for orchestra (2013) – 1′
(2; 2; 2; 4; 3; 3; 1; timp; 1 perc; strings)
– Innerlied for string orchestra (2013) – 10′
– Träume(Trauer)Stimmen for orchestra (2012) – 10′
(3; 2; 3; 2; 4; 2; 3; timp; cel; 5 perc; strings)
– Qasidah II for orchestra (2010) 20′
(2; 2; 2; 2; 4; 2; 3; 3; strings)
– Qasidah – in memoria di Ibn Hamdis for string orchestra (2010) – 9′
– Threnos per orchestra (2009) – 11′
(2; 2; 2; 2; 2; 2; timp; strings)
Opera and Stage Works
– La Paura (2015) – 1h20′
Soloists: tenor, tenor, baritone, bass.
CHORUS (TTBB)
Actors
Orchestration: 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; 1; piano; 2perc; strings quintet
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– La Gattomachia (2017) (“Battle of the cats”) – 35′
musical fairy tales for narrator, violin and strings
– Maxima Immoralia (2025) – 1h15′
opera in one act
libretto: Orazio Sciortino
Soloists: 3 sopranos
Orchestration: vl, cello, accordeon, piano, percussions
– Magic Words Circus (2026) – 1h
opera in one
libretto: Guido Barbieri
Soloists: actor, soprano, mezzosoprano, baritone
Orchestration: fl, cl, vl, cello, pf, percussions.
Chamber Music
– Cortège for clarinet, cello and piano (2026) – 6′
– Nachtstück for clarinet and piano (2024) – 9′
– Scarlattiana for guitar and piano (2018)– 6′
– Ludi for viola (or violin) and piano (2017) – 13′
– Ma fin est mon commencement for string quartet (2017) – 7′
– FaustBild for clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quintet (2017) – 8′
– Stasimo for ensemble (2013-’14)
(fl,cl,perc,pf,vl,cello)
– A song to sing on the water (Auf dem Wasser zu singen) for wind quintet (2014)
– Diario di un poeta for cello e pianoforte (2005 – rev.2013)
– Klavierquintett for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano (2012-’13). Audio
– Klavierquartett for violino, viola, violoncello e pianoforte (2012-2013)
– Klaviertrio for violin, cello and piano (2012) Audio
– I giochi di Fauno for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and piano (2012) Audio
– Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona for clarinet and piano (2010) – 6′
– Notturno per violoncello e pianoforte (2008)
Solo Piano and Works For 1 Instrument
– Lied ohne Ende (2023) for piano – 4′
– LiebeTtraum (2022) for piano – 1′
– E il rimembrar e l’aspettar m’accora – Sonetto del Petrarca (2021) for piano – 7′
– Driade fuggitiva for solo sax or solo clarinet (2021) -4′
– Promenades – Sette passeggiate immaginarie per sopravvivere ad una quarantena for piano (2020) – 20′
– Ofelia for guitar (2020) – 7′
– A midsummer night’s fox for solo piano (2019)- 8′
– Interlude (2019) for solo violin – 7′
– Coreofonia (2019) for solo piano (and dancer ad libitum) – 7′
– Lyssa (2019) for solo cello – 7′
– Singet leise, leise, leise (2019) for solo violin – 6′
– Zefiro for solo piano – 4′
EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO available on Orazio Sciortino – Piano Works. EC11977
– Quasi una sarabanda (2017) for solo cello – 4′
– Soliloquio (2015) for organ. 7′
– Lives through a glass (2016) 7′
EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO available on Orazio Sciortino – Piano Works. EC11977
– An actor on the stage – quasi una sonata (2016) 17′
EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO available on Orazio Sciortino – Piano Works. EC11977
– Sur le tombeau de Pergolesi, epigramma quasi una fantasia (2013) 6′
EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO available on Orazio Sciortino – Piano Works. EC11977
– (self)Portrait (2014) 2′
EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO available on Orazio Sciortino – Piano Works. EC11977
– Due Valzer per aspettare la mezzanotte (2015-2016) 8′
EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO available on Orazio Sciortino – Piano Works. EC11977
– Strauss/Sciortino Waltz Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
– Happy Birthday in 1949 for piano
– Ravel/Sciortino Three Pieces from “L’Enfant et les sortilèges”
– Mendelssohn-Fragmente – sei pezzi per pianoforte (2009): Preludio su Corale, Lied ohne Worte, Fuga, Andante, Allegro vivace, Allegro moderato.
– Strauss/Sciortino Wiegenlied for piano (2009)
– Mahler/Sciortino – Nur seh ich wohl warum so dunkle Flammen from Kindertotenlieder (2008)
– Cadenze per i Concerti per Pianoforte e Orchestra di Mozart (2001 – 2007) – ed. Ricordi-Universal (2008) Info
Voice and Piano or Ensemble
– Menotti/Sciortino – Canti della lontananza for voice and ensemble (2022)
(voice, fl, ob, cl, fg, hn, 2vl, vla, cello, db, hp, perc.)
– Casarsa – Quattro brevi Lieder su testi di Pier Paolo Pasolini per soprano e pianoforte (2022) – 10′
– Un dì si venne a me Malinconia for voice and piano (2021) – 5′
– Poexia for voice e ensemble (2014) – text by Biagio Marin
(fl,cl,vibr,voice,vl,vc)
– Canzuna, lamento d’un servo ad un santo crocifisso for voice and ensemble (2011, ensemble version 2013)
(voice, fl, cl, harp, perc, vla, cello)
Orazio Sciortino
Italian pianist, Composer, Conductor
From La Scala to Berlin, from Liszt to his own musical visions.
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