"a gift for connecting one phrase with another, even one note with another." Fanfare

Letters from Home

Susan Narucki's achingly beautiful performance is a joy. These songs were created from letters from the 1940s and 1950s, I found in my house!

Cantare di Amore - Tony Arnold Soprano

The incomparable Tony Arnold breathes new life into these old Italian texts, originally set by Monteverdi in the 17th Century

Excerpt from Ablaze Records CD Rituals: Sacred and Profane

Inspired by the Rituals in our lives

Excerpt from Ablaze Records CD

Stephane's Dance

rhapsody for piano and orchestra

Michael Boriskin, piano Arthur Fagen, conductor, Munich Radio Orchestra!

PDF score available: edward.smaldone@qc.cuny.edu

A cappella setting of one of the most famous Italian poems, "Edward Smaldone’s L’infinito standing out for its adventurous harmonic language and deft evocation of an Italian landscape.” Donald Rosenberg , Grammophone, 2018

The Beauty of Innuendo

Performed in New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Beijing and then recorded in Brno.

Edward Smaldone Composer