actually, this song has been started right after the release of “Churches of Umbria”, that is, in the middle of November 2007. Its structure was ready on January, but then the inspiration for “La Rosa dei Venti” came and everything was put on hold. During the weeks between LRdV and IDdR releases I had very little time to finish this last song, so I would not call myself productive: I have a release rate of about 4-5 songs per year, after all…
Anyway it is strange how little time you sometimes need to write an enitre song, and how much time you need to finish it 
Yes, it has been done entirely on Renoise using Native Instrument Kontakt 2 as sampler, East West Symphonic Orchestra and Garritan as libraries.
two little notices:
1] yesterday I have erroneously uploaded a copy of the OGG files with no ID tags. I have uploaded it again witht eh correct tags, which are:
- Title: Il Dolore delle Rondini (Swallows’ Pain)
- Artist: It-Alien
- Album: Il dolore delle rondini
- Year: 2008
- Track: 03
- Genre: Contemporary classical
fill them by yourself if they are missing, and if you really want to
2] the import of Last.fm is taking more than I expected: the system told me it needed “120:45” to parse the uploaded file, but I though it meant 120 minutes, but it seems to mean 120 hours