Marco Somadossi

For a small but lucky part of the world it is the result of a simple gesture: turning on the tap or moving a tiny leve... and there is the water, running quickly, fresh and clean, in a continuous and...

In October 2000, the River Po produced its highest flood waters in the last hundred years, provoking a natural disaster of dramatic dimensions. To the thousands of valiant men and women committed to d...

The sweet eyes of Maite, full of promises for a better future, guide us to the discovery of this tender suite in three movements. The little girl's eyes, through her daily enjoyment, rest, and amazeme...

May 1944: the school year is ending and a college student leaves school to join the partisan troops settled on the heights of the impenetrable Val Grande. He's only 16 years old. Around his neck he ca...

An easy piece in klezmer style, a traditional musical genre of the Jews of Eastern Europe, in particular used in weddings and other celebrations.

PARITER Together, alike: these are the meanings, or better, the concepts expressed by the Latin adverb pariter. It means to do things together, to act in the same way and, more broadly, to be all alik...

The titleThe theme of this composition is immediately evident from the title, which almost requires no further explanation. It will never be possible to represent or reproduce the full implications of...

Fortuna Averrunca, la fortuna che allontana la sventura; Fortuna Brevis, la Dea che protegge in una singola situazione; Fortuna Respiciens, che sana i guai provenienti dal passato; Fortuna Huiusce Die...

Commissioned on the occasion of the eighth edition of the Modena International Military Tattoo in 2004, this piece is a typical example of its genre: introduction (fanfare), anthem, adagio, repeat. Af...

I would like to go to the moon with the steam to be able to make love with the women up there I would like to go to hell in a stagecoach to see if mindfulness is the same as up here I would like to go...

The piece evokes the struggle of man against the destructive force of nature, in this case a terrible flood that occurred in 2000 following an exceptional flood of the Po river. In October 2000, the R...

The titleOne of the most famous pieces in Queen's repertoire is at the centre of this splendid arrangement for a symphonic band by Marco Somadossi. Due to its technical difficulty, this arrangement ca...