"Here is a little-known Sicilian composer for fans of colourful, interesting 20th-century music: Eliodoro Sollima. Born in Marsala, Sollima studied piano under Arthuro Benedetti Michelangeli before directing the Palermo conservatoire for sixteen years. His son, Giovanni, is a cellist and composer as well, and can be heard, for example, on the Brilliant Classics recording of Offenbach’s cello duets, and as one of the contributing writers on a Rumi tribute album on BRIDGE records, among other projects. He is the conductor and cello soloist on this present disc. The elder Sollima has not yet been widely recorded. The title of this album is "Orchestral Works: 1945-1997", but I’m not entirely sure why the dates were included. If Sollima (born 1926, died 2000) had compositional "phases" either before or after the range featured on this album, they must have been rather short. Instead, what links the six pieces on this disc is that they are all "concertante" works; that is, they feature one soloist or more against some kind of ensemble backdrop. Often, though, it is not a question of virtuosity or showmanship but of having more colours and textures available with which to compose. If Giovanni Sollima needed to release a "lead single" for this album, the way artists in rock and pop used to, I have no doubt that he would have picked "Aria". Eliodoro composed it as a 19-year-old in 1945, saying of the work that it expresses “the poignant, finally fulfilled desire to be able to breathe the open air again after being forced to take refuge in underground shelters to escape the bombs.” "Aria" was originally scored for string quartet, but the composer revised it at some point for cello and strings. For my money, it’d make a great cello concerto encore (or CD bonus track) in the way "From the Bohemian Forest" often does. Sollima sounds genuinely late-Romantic in "Aria"; I thought of Strauss’s "Metamorphosis", although maybe the date and subject matter helped. Either way, it is a gorgeous piece, and the highlight here for me. All in all, I found the disc to be a genuine success. I came away from this disc a fan of both Eliodoro and Giovanni Sollima. If you like late 20th-century music that is eclectic, melodically-oriented, and original, you’ll like Sollima." (MusicWeb International)
"In 2010 wordt Nicola Segatta gevraagd twee teksten uit A Midsummer Nights Dream van William Shakespeare op muziek te zetten voor een festival in Turijn. Hij voert het uit met zijn Piccola Orchestra Lumière, het Trio Broz, de cellisten Monika Leskovar en Giovanni Sollima en zangeres Adele Pardi. Dit project werd zon groot succes, dat hij meer werk ging componeren. Uiteindelijk duurt het nog 3 jaar eer Segatta een CD-label vond om zijn muziek uit te brengen. Niet vreemd, want in deze hokjesmaatschappij is "Shakespeare For Dreamers" een klassiek album met teveel pop-invloeden en een pop-album met teveel klassiek-invloeden Maar dat is nou juist wat deze muziek zo bijzonder maakt!! Zijn muziek doet denken aan werk van Michael Nyman, maar ook aan Poulenc, en met vette knipogen naar pop en musical. Een verrassende combinatie met verrassende wendingen en theatrale overgangen. Een manier van componeren die Nicola Segatta voortreffelijk beheerst en toegankelijk voor een breed publiek." (Mattie Poels, Musicframes)
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