Content
- Gondol Ride to St. Mark's Square
- Romeo and Steve
- Monteverdi and His Ideas
- Vivaldi's ADHD
- Sibelius in Venice
- Mozart Loses His Mojo
- Casanova and Lorenzo
- Morte a Venezia
Iiro Rantala's Veneziana for chamber ensemble and piano (2021-2022) is a 50 minute long program about all things Venice; how famous composers were affected by the city, how they affected the city and became part of the Venetian Story - told with an Iiro twist. The meeting of Prokofiev and Diaghilev turns into a "real nutcracker ballet Romeo and Steve", whilst Mozart loses his mojo when visiting Venice. Monteverdi starts and Verdi completes the waltz boom - and Sibelius finds his national romantic melancholy again.
Veneziana is scored for wind and string quintets and a pianist. This product is a study score (A4 sized, spiral bounding). The performance material is available for hire from the publisher.