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Cristiano Porqueddu - Homage to Angelo Gilardino - A Life for Music (2021)

Cristiano Porqueddu - Homage to Angelo Gilardino - A Life for Music (2021)

BAND/ARTIST: Cristiano Porqueddu

  • Title: Homage to Angelo Gilardino - A Life for Music
  • Year Of Release: 2021
  • Label: Brilliant Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
  • Total Time: 02:15:45
  • Total Size: 530 mb
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Tracklist

01. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: I. Volo D'Angeli
02. Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza: I. Soledad
03. Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza: II. Omaggio a Sergeij Prokofiev
04. Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza: III. Noche oscura
05. Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza: IV. Paesaggio ligure
06. Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza: V. Les arbres rouges
07. Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza: VI. Aubade
08. Colloquio con Andrés Segovia
09. Annunciazione
10. Ikonostas
11. A Quiet Song
12. Asturiana
13. Paganini
14. Cavaliere di Malta
15. Concerto di oliena: I. Andante lento - Allegretto
16. Concerto di oliena: II. Adagio
17. Concerto di oliena: III. Allegro scherzoso
18. Sardegna - Suite per chitarra to Cristiano Porqueddu: I. Mari
19. Sardegna - Suite per chitarra to Cristiano Porqueddu: II. Nuraghe
20. Sardegna - Suite per chitarra to Cristiano Porqueddu: III. S'Ardia
21. Sardegna - Suite per chitarra to Cristiano Porqueddu: IV. Su soli est calau
22. Sardegna - Suite per chitarra to Cristiano Porqueddu: V. Ciamma
23. Contemplatio in Caligine
24. Metamorfosis de la soledad

An 80th-birthday tribute featuring new recordings of key works by the Italian guitarist-composer from one of his most dedicated interpreters.
Born in the Piedmont region of Italy in 1941, Angelo Gilardino stands in the noble line of guitarist composer-performers that includes Paganini, Tárrega, Brouwer and countless more. Yet he professes not to be the best interpreter of his own music, leaving that privilege to others. One such is Sicilian guitarist Cristiano Porqueddu, who studied with Gilardino and who presents here an appealing mix of the composer’s solo and orchestral works featuring classical guitar.
After the impressionistic works of his early period such as Abreuana, Gilardino evolved a more formal style during the 1980s, beginning with his first series of 12 studies (Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza) in 1981. The 60 final Studies now stand as cornerstone of Gilardino’s oeuvre, having entered the concert programmes of guitarists worldwide. He wrote his first concerto for guitar and orchestra in 1996; the Concerto di Oliena is his third, dedicated to Cristiano Porqueddu and highly evocative in its opening movement of the rocky terrain and harsh contrasts of the Sardinian landscape which is also Porqueddu’s native land.
During the 2000s, Gilardino returned to writing for the solo guitar, skilfully bridging the divide between atonal chromatic and diatonic modal music in the five-movement Sardegna suite dedicated to Porqueddu. The collection is bookended by a musical birthday card from the collection (composed between 1953 and 1968) by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Porqueddu’s own Metamorfosis de la Soledad, inspired by his encounter with the artist Gastone Cecconello.
The Brilliant Classics catalogue already carries a substantial catalogue of Gilardino’s music: these are new recordings, made in 2021 and previously unissued.

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