Verso i porti grigi
Nel 1982 / 1983 composi al pianoforte questo brano, per adesso il più lungo che abbia finito di arrangiare e forse fra i meglio riusciti fra quelli dedicati al mondo di Tolkien. L'arrangiamento è del 2004. Nel 2018 in occasione…
Lúthien
Lúthien – First Draft: Well, what's so strange? I also have my Lúthien Tinúviel and this musical creation was a part of my present for our first anniversary. Here I had finally reached my personal style, also in the draft…
The Rohan Plains
The Rohan Plains: One of the compositions where I have perhaps expressed better melancholy, the deep sadness that sometimes a Tolkien reader feels. Not the oppressive, violent sadness without hope, which the XX Century has got us used to, but…
Baccador
Baccador – First Draft: The Lords of the Rings includes different landscapes that I would describe as dazzling in their beauty, and the Hobbit's arrival in Tom Bombadil's house is one of these. Tolkien talks about Gandalf (or, better, makes…
Spring in Lothlórien
Spring in Lothlórien – Third Draft: How many of us dream of an uncontaminated place, not corrupted by the world's evil where to be in peace for a while in search of ourselves? Beyond the easy rhetoric, a few writers…