Stanze : versione originale per pianoforte

Milan, 1990 I was writing a series of piano pieces. I had a goal: to remove, and leave space. The title refers to the poetic stanzas but also to invisible spaces to be inhabited with the mind. (L. Einaudi)

Giacomo Puccini: Turandot (Vocal Score)

The compete vocal score of Puccini's celebrated Turandot, premiered on April 25, 1926, at Il Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The last duet and final scene of the opera were completed by F. Alfano. English adaptation by R.H. Elkin.

Giuseppe Verdi: Aida - Opera Vocal Score

Full Vocal score of Giuseppe Verdi's successful and resoundingly popular opera Aida. With Italian and English lyrics and synopsis in Italian, English, French and German. Commissioned by the khedive of Egypt to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, Aida was first performed at the Cairo Opera Theatre on the 24th of December 1871. The following year it received its Italian premiere at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Verdi set the narrative with a variety of theatrical and musical solutions that effectively illustrate the love story in all its intricate excess, resulting in unavoidable tragedy when the volatile and entangled dimension of personal passions clashes with the power of patriotic conscience.

Stanze : versione originale per arpa

Milan, 1990 I was writing a series of piano pieces. I had a goal: to remove, and leave space. The title refers to the poetic stanzas but also to invisible spaces to be inhabited with the mind. One day my friend Cecilia Chailly calls me and asks me if I have a harp piece for her to play. I give her Vega to try. Two days later I go to her house to listen and, with mutual enthusiasm, I give her all the pieces that we will soon be recording. Cecilia will perform them in concert on various and memorable occasions. Here, I would like to express my profound thanks for her heartfelt help in correcting this new harp edition. (L. Einaudi)

3 POST X SCARLATTI : per pianoforte (2014)

Lucrezia Borgia : Ed. crit. R. Parker-R. Ward – Riduzione per canto e pianoforte

Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia was premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on 26 December 1833 and is considered one of the composer’s most important and innovative operas of the 1830s. Although, because of censorship issues, particularly in the south of Italy, it was initially slow to become popular, by the late 1830s it had become one of the composer’s most popular operas, both in Italy and abroad, and remained an essential part of the composer’s oeuvre until at least the end of the nineteenth century. Remarkable for its daring subject matter (with an unconventional, forceful heroine), it is also renowned for its challenging mixture of the comic and the tragic, something very unusual at the time and clearly an important influence on Giuseppe Verdi’s middle period masterpieces. The present reduction for voice and piano derives from the critical edition of the score, recently published in this catalog: is based on Donizetti’s autograph manuscript (housed in the Ricordi Archives in Milan), on the libretto for the premiere, on several printed editions of voice and piano, and on numerous additional scores of the period. It presents for the first time all the numerous additions that the composer made to the score over the course of ten years: a fascinating record of his changing music dramatic attitudes during this period. There is also a synthetic historical reconstruction of the genesis of the opera and of the description of the Sources as well as a selection of most interest to singers of Critical Commentary Notes.

Ludovico Einaudi: Le Onde

Solo Piano work written in 1996 by the acclaimed Milanese composer. Einaudi writes "The idea of Le Onde was to write something inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves. I was really intrigued by the form of the novel, which is very complex and interesting because some parts are written in italics and others in normal text. The parts in italics are like a cadence running through the book. The book is a description of what people see during one day, starting from the light of the morning and by the end of the book night has fallen. Every time the italic chapters come back, you see a different change of light on what's happening on the shore." He started writing all the pieces for Le Onde inspired by this idea, but reached a point when he felt there was still a piece lacking from the overall picture. "I said 'yes, it's missing Le Onde', which had in its opening the cadence of a wave. The idea was that the music flowed and was developing by itself, from the opening arpeggio, like when you see a wave developing in its space, it's developing because it has to. It's perpetual motion."

Le Willis : Edizione critica a cura di Martin Deasy

Le Willis (1883 84) and its two act reworking Le Villi (1884 85: revised 1889) are Puccini's inaugural works in the operatic genre. Uniquely among Puccini's operas, neither version was ever published in full score, and both present significant textual problems. The manuscript of Le Willis was dismembered and reworked as the basis of Le Villi: and Ricordi's master hire score of Le Villi was destroyed in 1943—and with it an entire tradition of revisions and corrections. Successive editions of the printed vocal score of Le Villi are of very uneven quality. The new two volume Critical Edition is the fruit of an extensive recension of the surviving sources in the light of a collateral transmission in which authority is often shared between sources. As well as the autograph full scores, drafts and sketch materials (notably the composer's continuity draft) have been brought to bear on the numerous text critical problems that arise. Volume I of the Edition makes possible for the first time the performance of the one act opera Le Willis, reconstructed from the two parts of Puccini's manuscript held at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and the Archivio Ricordi, Milan. Le Willis emerges as a valuable addition to the limited repertory of one act operas, with a striking vein of symphonism that looks forward to Manon Lescaut. Seen in its true light—as an expression of the Milanese scapigliatura—the opera is revealed as musically and dramaturgically coherent in its own terms and well worthy of modern performance. Volume II contains the score of Le Villi in its final 1889 revision, based on the composer's autograph full score and the 1889 edition of the printed vocal score. Additional material is included in appendices, notably Roberto's original extended 1885 Scena. Besides the Critical Apparatus and Source Descriptions, a comprehensive Historical Introduction sheds light on the compositional history and context, hitherto obscured by hearsay and misunderstanding.

Le Villi : Edizione critica a cura di Martin Deasy

Le Willis (1883 84) and its two act reworking Le Villi (1884 85: revised 1889) are Puccini's inaugural works in the operatic genre. Uniquely among Puccini's operas, neither version was ever published in full score, and both present significant textual problems. The manuscript of Le Willis was dismembered and reworked as the basis of Le Villi: and Ricordi's master hire score of Le Villi was destroyed in 1943—and with it an entire tradition of revisions and corrections. Successive editions of the printed vocal score of Le Villi are of very uneven quality. The new two volume Critical Edition is the fruit of an extensive recension of the surviving sources in the light of a collateral transmission in which authority is often shared between sources. As well as the autograph full scores, drafts and sketch materials (notably the composer's continuity draft) have been brought to bear on the numerous text critical problems that arise. Volume I of the Edition makes possible for the first time the performance of the one act opera Le Willis, reconstructed from the two parts of Puccini's manuscript held at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and the Archivio Ricordi, Milan. Le Willis emerges as a valuable addition to the limited repertory of one act operas, with a striking vein of symphonism that looks forward to Manon Lescaut. Seen in its true light—as an expression of the Milanese scapigliatura—the opera is revealed as musically and dramaturgically coherent in its own terms and well worthy of modern performance. Volume II contains the score of Le Villi in its final 1889 revision, based on the composer's autograph full score and the 1889 edition of the printed vocal score. Additional material is included in appendices, notably Roberto's original extended 1885 Scena. Besides the Critical Apparatus and Source Descriptions, a comprehensive Historical Introduction sheds light on the compositional history and context, hitherto obscured by hearsay and misunderstanding.