Vocal music - Alessio Elia

Vocal Music

Ulisse

for: mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Text: Umberto Saba

Date of Composition : June 2000

Duration: 12'

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Silenti Città

(Silent Cities)

for: mezzo-soprano, piccolo, 2 flutes, 3 violins, 2 cellos, double-bass and piano

Text and Music: Alessio Elia

Date of Composition: January - July 2001

Duration: 10'

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L'Eternité

for: mezzo-soprano and ensemble

Text: Arthur Rimbaud

Date of composition: 2011

(Orchestral version: 2013)

Duration: 7'

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5 frammenti da - La Volontà di Potenza -

(5 fragments from – The Will to Power - )

for: singer soloists, 5 chorus and large orchestra

Fragm. no. 7 - 41 - 47 - 19 - 81 from "The Will to Power" by F. Nietzsche

Date of Composition: June 2003 - January 2004

Duration: 25'

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Laudamus

for: mezzo-soprano and piano

Date of Composition: May - July 2003

Duration: 5'

Première: 20 March 2005. Auditorium of Cesano City. Cesano.

Ilaria Piccin, mezzo-soprano

Alessio Elia, piano

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Illusions

for: soprano and sax soprano, on no text

Commissioned by "Duo Saxopran". Copenhagen

Date of Composition: July 2007 - September 2008

Duration: 8'

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An Unexpected Indifference

for: mixed chorus (SATB)

Commissioned by: Norwegian Academy of Music

Date of Composition: 2010

Text by: Horatius

Duration: 6'

Première: 21st May 2010. Levinsalen, Norwegian Academy of Music.

Choir of The Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo.

Alessio Elia, conductor.

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Credo

for: two mixed chorus and string orchestra [choir 1: 4 S / 4 A / 4 T / 4 B (minimum) // choir 2: 4 S / 4 A / 4 T / 4 B (minimum) // string: 2 2 2 2 1 (minimum)]

Date of Composition: 2014-2015

Text by: Symbolum apostolorum VI p. C.n.

Duration: 10'

Première: 29 March 2015. Heilig-Geist-Kirche Mannheim, within Konzert zur Nacht.

Motettenchor Mannheim

Impronta Ensemble

Alexander Niehues, conductor

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Voynich Emblemata

for: mixed chorus and ensemble [choir: 8 S / 8 A / 8 T / 8 B // ensemble: 1 fl. / 1. ob. / 1. cl. / 1 hn. / 1 bs. / 1 perc. / pf. / 1 d.bs]

Date of Composition: 2014-2015

Text: excerpt from the folio 99v of the Voynich manuscript.

First employment of the Voynich manuscript text.

Duration: 15'

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Voynich Lied - Ai Prigionieri

for: soprano, trumpet, piano.

Date of composition: 2016

Text: excerpt from the folio 99v of the Voynich manuscript.

Duration: 8'

Première: 1 June 2016. Hungarian Radio Studios - Márványterem.

ArTRIUM 2016 V/5 concert series of Bartók Radio. Live broadcasted by Bartók Radio.

Adrienn Miksch, soprano

Tamás Pálfalvi, trumpet

Krisztina Fejes, piano

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Incantesimi di Merseburg

for: 16-part soloist mixed chorus (SATB)

Date of composition: 2019

Text: the two Enchantments of Merseburg (Old German)

Duration: 14'

Première: 21 February 2020. Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Mannheim.

Kammerchor Stuttgart. Frieder Bernius, conductor

Commission of Kammerchor Stuttgart

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Outskirts of Matter

for: countertenor (baritone), accordion, piano, trombone, 2 violins con scordatura, cello con scordatura.

Date of composition: 2020

Text: Alessio Elia

Duration: 12'

Première: 15 December 2020. Arnold Schönberg Center. Vienna

Alois Mühlbacher, counter-tenor/baritone

Ensemble Wiener Collage (soloists and members of the Wiener Philharmoniker)

René Staar, conductor

Commissioned by Ensemble Wiener Collage

Dedicated to: Cecily Brown

The piece is inspired by the gospel of Mary Madgalene

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