Dilettante Music

Ariella Uliano is a singer of Early and Traditional Music and a skillful songwriter. In London, Ariella performs with a baroque dance company, studies aspects of Music & Dance in relation to Literature & Art and runs seminars based on her research. Ariella Uliano is the author of four albums: Leave Only Your Footsteps Behind (2008), Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare (2006), The Wandering Spirit (2004) and So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (2002). She has also released two DVD singles of tracks Sumer and Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare from the CD Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare, with photography by Renzo Frontoni as seen on YouTube, produced by MusicariE. Ariella's music is available directly from www.ariella-music.co.uk

The CD The Wandering Spirit has songs, dances and poetry from the English Renaissance and Shakespearean eras. It features refined arrangements by the Italian baroque ensemble I Musici Di San Giorgio. The participating artists are from Italy, Greece, England, Wales and Ireland resulting in an unusual picture of Italian and English Renaissance that is fresh and inspiring. The Wandering Spirit is set in Verona and begins with the banquet at the Capulets’ house. It includes spoken words from the original ‘novella’ of Romeo & Juliet and from Shakespeare’s play, by Italian actor Stefano Paiusco and his drama students. The CD contains a very elegant 20 pages booklet with black and white photography, notes and texts in English and Italian.

The album Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare (My Lady Looks So Gentle And So Pure) embraces and links together Celtic and English ballads and tunes with the poetry of Medieval and Renaissance Italy. The ancient songs, melodies and words on this album speak of love, the arrival of the warm and sunny season and the joys and pleasures of youth. Tanto Gentile E Tanto Onesta Pare also features Medieval poetry by Dante Alighieri from The Divine Comedy and Vita Nova (New Life) dedicated to Beatrice; works by the Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa and words by Lorenzo De' Medici and his tutor and famous humanist Angelo Poliziano. The repertoire encompasses beautiful piano settings of traditional ballads, elegant arrangements of Medieval and Renaissance dances and some original compositions by Ariella Uliano. The CD contains a very elegant 12 pages booklet with stunning full colour photography, notes in English and Italian and texts.

Skills

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• Dancer.

• Donizetti, Gaetano Larghetto for piano in A minor ("Una furtiva lagrima")