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"Es la primera vez que estas bellas e importantes composiciones se publican en moderna edición en nuestros días" (Música y Educación, March 2003)

"Alguien se preguntará qué hace un volúmen de partituras para piano y voz en una revista de guitarra. Pero es que Sor es siempre Sor ... de alto interés." (Acordes (Spanish magazine), 2003).

"...the new volumes of Sor's Italian Arietts. They are so beautifully produced and edited and a work of art in themselves." (Graham Wade, November 2002)

NEW February 2004: a CD available from Tecla containing eight of the arietts. (With some mp3s).

The music has been divided up into two books for the convenience of performers: Book 1, containing Three Italian Arietts, Sets 1 to 7; and Book 2, containing Three Italian Arietts, Sets 8 to 10; Three Italian Duets, Sets 1 and 2; and the Three Canons.

VERSIONS WITH GUITAR.  Some of the arietts are available with guitar accompaniment and are directly downloadable online from Hebe.

These guitar arrangements have been made available here because Sor himself sometimes performed some of the accompaniments on the guitar (and himself sometimes sang the voice part), and some of them work well on the guitar.  I asked Rob MacKillop to arrange some of the piano accompaniments for guitar, and he has done so.  He writes: "I think they [the first set of arietts] are wonderful songs".  These guitar arrangements are the ones which are now directly downloadable online from Hebe. Have a look! They include "Oh cara" from the First Set of Arietts, which turns out to be a wonderful song where the accompaniment fits extremely well onto the guitar. 

The complete contents list
Alphabetical list
The complete introduction
See sample arietts as pdfs (beginnings only): "Lagrime mie d'affanno" page 1, "Lagrime mie d'affanno" page 2, "Io mormoro in vano" page 1, "Io mormoro in vano" page 2.

The edition is complete in two books and is available either paperbound or in a handsome cloth binding.  It also includes the complete Italian words and English prose translations of all the songs, and full-length reviews from journals of the time.

"Thanks for sending me the beautiful edition of the Sor Arietts, they've been on my piano music stand ever since. Although I have photocopies of most of them there have been several fascinating discoveries. I particularly like the 1st Canon Piacer d' amore with its lovely and touching introductory harmonies. I didn't expect these songs to be true canons but, although there may not be much rhythmic independence, the imitation in all three voices is complete. I can readily understand why Piacer d' amore was published in an English version as late as 1907.  I see from your web site that there are recordings of the songs planned. I hope that these will be done with piano accompaniment and not guitar or fortepiano! Although good results can be achieved on the guitar it really only suits the more simple accompaniments. The otherwise excellent recording of Sor arietts made by Montserrat Figueras and José Miguel Moreno is a case in point where, in Perduta l' anima, the affecting and powerful piano writing in the coda section makes little impression. Having said this, I performed some of the Arietts many years ago in a transcription for two guitars and voice that I made." (Roger Quin, January 2003)

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