New Album From Eleonora Strino

Italian jazz guitarist Eleonora Strino releases an album of solo guitar, Lumithia – available in April 2026.

Eleonora Strino: Lumithia is my new solo guitar project; each piece is inspired by a different story, most of them drawn from some of the books that have accompanied me in art and in life over these years.

Danny Boy: a famous Irish ballad.

The Bell Jar: the title of Sylvia Plath’s only novel, strongly autobiographical.

Jezabel: the title of a book by Irène Némirovsky.

Chopin’s Awakening: inspired by Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening.

Alexandra Kollontai: dedicated to the life of the great Russian revolutionary.

Montenuovo: the name of a volcanic caldera near Pozzuoli (Naples).

Lumithia: the title of my mother’s novel.

Virginia: dedicated to Virginia Woolf.

Modesta: the name of the protagonist of Goliarda Sapienza’s novel The Art of Joy.

Camille: dedicated to my friend Camille and to Miriam Makeba, who died in Castel Volturno.

Ninna Nanni: dedicated to my nephew Nanni.

The Vegetarian: the title of the Nobel Prize–winning book by Han Kang.

Alfonsina y el mar: a famous Argentine zamba paying tributeto Alfonsina Storni, a Swiss-born Argentine poet who died by suicide at sea.

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