Giovanni Sollima

About the artist

Giovanni Sollima (b. Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 1962) is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Conservatorio di Palermo, where he graduated with highest honors. He later studied with Antonio Janigro and Milko Kelemen at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Sollima's music is influenced by minimalism, with his compositions often featuring modal melodies and repetitive structures.

Top songs

  1. Il bell'Antonio, Tema III
  2. Terra Aria
  3. Violoncelles, Vibrez!
  4. Terra Acqua
  5. Trio
  6. Hell I
  7. Terra Danza
  8. Suite Case per due violini: Wood (Moderato)
  9. Slow
  10. Terra Fuoco
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  1. Notte
  2. Zobeide
  3. When We Were Trees, Nyagrodha
  4. Inversion Recovery
  5. La Spera Ottava
  6. L'invenzione del nero
  7. Lamentatio
  8. When We Were Trees, The Family Tree (Vivaldi)
  9. When We Were Trees, Leaves Postcards
  10. Yet Can I Hear
  11. LBFiles: Igiul
  12. LBFiles: Concerto
  13. LBFiles: Fandango Del Signore Bouqueriny
  14. When We Were Trees, Resonance Wood (La Foresta Dei Violini)
  15. Byron - The Prophecy of Dante
  16. Hell VI - Conte Ugolino
  17. When We Were Trees, The Architect
  18. Loof And Let Dime
  19. LBFiles: Boccherinero
  20. When We Were Trees, The Dangerous Prevalence Of Imagination
  21. Di Di
  22. Give You Up
  23. L.B. Files: Concerto
  24. Amor vincit omnia
  25. Terra aria (Arranged by Tom Trapp) - Live
  26. L.B. Files: Igiul
  27. Aquilarco #8 - Aria
  28. Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello Basso continuo: III. Sarabanda (Amoroso)
  29. Tree Raga Song
  30. Dipintore, per malattia
  31. Aquilarco #1 - Prelude
  32. Monsuziam (Arr. for Cello by Giovanni Sollima)
  33. Fandango per violoncello solo
  34. Aquilarco #3 - Ornithomanteia
  35. Aquilarco #4 - Aquilastro
  36. Aquilarco #2 - Hinton's Drawings
  37. Spasimo #1 - De Harmonia
  38. Il tracciato di Marta
  39. Fandango del Signor Bouqueriny
  40. Party
  41. Byron
  42. Spasimo #2 - Peste
  43. Aquilarco #5 - Leonardo's Ornithopterus
  44. The Dangerous Prevalence of Imagination
  45. Sento il canto in curva
  46. Aquilarco #6 - Spinning Top Prelude
  47. Aquilarco #9 - Rotating Dance
  48. Aquilarco #7 - Rotating Dance
  49. Lama
  50. Lamentatio (Live at "La Milanesiana")
  51. Spasimo #3 - Raffaello: Il Naufragio
  52. Spasimo #4 - Porta dei Greci
  53. Igiul
  54. Sollima: Violoncelles, Vibrez!
  55. Aquilarco #1 (Prelude)
  56. Spasimo #5 - De Harmonia, Via Dolorosa
  57. Hell VI (ugolino)
  58. Alone
  59. Scena finale
  60. Sogno Ad Occhi Aperti (Terra Aria)
  61. Aquilarco #2 (Hinton'S Drawings)
  62. Resonance Wood (La foresta dei violini)
  63. Sinfonia in B-Flat Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Sarabanda (Amoroso)
  64. Aquilarco #8 (Aria)
  65. Prelude for Mandolin Solo
  66. Quam pulchra es et quam decora, chiarissima, in deliciIs! (After J. Arcadelt)
  67. Flagellatione (After J. Arcadelt)
  68. Aria
  69. Aquilarco #3 (Ornithomanteia)
  70. Voi sapete ch'io v'amo (After J. Arcadelt) (feat. Marta Sollima)
  71. Voi sapete ch'io v'amo (After J. Arcadelt)
  72. Aquilarco #5 (Leonardo'S Ornithopterus)
  73. We Were Trees
  74. Aquilarco #7 (Rotating Dance)
  75. The Architect
  76. Aquilarco #6 (Spinning Top Prelude)
  77. Aquilarco #9 (Rotating Dance)
  78. Sollima: Moghul
  79. Madonie
  80. Fandango (After L. Boccherini)
  81. Violincelles, Vibrez!
  82. Sono Vere Oppure E' Un Sogno
  83. La montagna grave
  84. Concerto
  85. Nyagrodha
  86. 1. Terra Aria
  87. Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) Part 1
  88. Casanova
  89. Anguane
  90. Aquilarco #4 (Aquilastro)

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