Compositions

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Edizioni Curci Milano

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Orchestra

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′

Rielaborazione ed orchestrazione di “Fantasia su i Lombardi alla prima crociata” di E.Cavallini (2010)

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 EDIZIONI CURCI MILANO – La Gattomachia (“Battle of the cats”)

Chamber Music

– Tre movimenti for string quartet (2021) – 12′

Un dì si venne a me Malinconia for voice and piano (2021) – 5′

– Scarlattiana for guitar and piano – 6′

– Ludi for viola (or violin) and piano – 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)
for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and 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

– Canzuna, for voice and ensemble (or piano) (2011-2013)

“Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona” for clarinet and piano (2010) Audio

Notturno per violoncello e pianoforte (2008)

– Apprenti Sorcier – trascrizione per pianoforte a 4 mani da Paul Dukas

Solo Piano and Works For 1 Instrument

– E il rimembrar e l’aspettar m’accora – Sonetto del Petrarca for piano

– Driade fuggitiva for solo sax or solo clarinet (2021)

– Promenades – Sette passeggiate immaginarie per sopravvivere ad una quarantena for piano (2020)

Ofelia for guitar (2020)

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

Orazio Sciortino
Italian pianist, Composer, Conductor

From La Scala to Berlin, from Liszt to his own musical visions.

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