Novecento Guitar Sonatinas / Porqueddu

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
July 5, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Cristiano Porqueddu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 05, 2019
    • UPC
      5028421955582
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95558
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio quasi introduzione. Molto moderato

      Composer: Cyril Scott

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    2. II. Allegretto pensoso

      Composer: Cyril Scott

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    3. III. Finale

      Composer: Cyril Scott

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    4. I. Allegro

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    5. II. Andante

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    6. III. Intermezzo

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    7. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    8. I. Allegro

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    9. II. Largo

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    10. III. Allegro molto

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    11. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Carlos Surinach

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    12. II. Andante

      Composer: Carlos Surinach

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    13. III. Allegro

      Composer: Carlos Surinach

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    14. Sonatina miniature

      Composer: Virgilio Mortari

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    15. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Albert Harris

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    16. II. Aria

      Composer: Albert Harris

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    17. III. Rondo

      Composer: Albert Harris

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    18. I. Allegro vivo

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    19. II. Non troppo lentamente

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    20. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    21. I. Andantino un poco mosso, semplice

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    22. II. Aria

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    23. III. Apoteosi

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    24. I. Il loro giorno

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    25. II. Aria

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    26. III. Apoteosi

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    27. No. 1. Trees

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    28. No. 2. Heavens

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    29. No. 3. Waters

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    30. I. Andantino semplice

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    31. II. Barcarola

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    32. III. Andantino scherzoso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    33. I. Andantino grazioso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    34. II. Barcarola

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    35. III. Andantino scherzoso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    36. I. Allegretto spigliato

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    37. II. Air

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    38. III. Rondeau capricieux

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    39. Sonatina No. 3, "Il flauto nel bosco"

      Composer: Franco

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    40. I. Felice e con grazia

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    41. II. Lento e poco mesto

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    42. III. Giocoso e molto ritmico

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    43. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Vitaly Kharisov

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    44. II. Andante rubato

      Composer: Vitaly Kharisov

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    45. I. Andante deciso

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    46. II. Lento

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    47. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    48. I. Liberamente non troppo lento, allegretto

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    49. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    50. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu


This survey is the sequel to comparably comprehensive Brilliant Classics collections of 20th-century guitar preludes and sonatas. The sonatinas included take their place as part of a long process of study conducted by Cristiano Porqueddu over the past few years. The high percentage of world premiere recordings - more than half of the entire tracklist - should give a good idea of how the research was conducted: as with the two previous releases, space has been given to those works that rarely appear either in concert or on record, in order to give voice to a considerable amount of excellent music almost completely ignored. Porqueddu made a longlist of over 60 sonatinas by 20th-century and by living composers, before narrowing down the final choice to the 17 performed here. Before Porqueddu, of course, there was the pioneer of modern guitar performance a century ago, Andres Segovia, who commissioned and inspired countless composers to write for him. One of those was the English composer Cyril Scott, and while Segovia expressed some misgivings about the result – ‘I’m not head over heels about it’, he wrote to his friend Manuel Ponce – the three-movement Sonatina makes a fine test of any guitarist’s musicianship and effectively inhabits the Spanish guitar tradition with its mysterious slow introduction and hypnotic central, Flamenco-style slow movement. The sonatinas by Mark Delpriora, Carlos Surinach and Albert Harris are no less compressed in expression, using the sonatina form to pack ideas into ten minutes that would occupy half an hour in the hands of lesser composers. The seven works of Angelo Gilardino are more expansive, though full of character, testifying to the unique relationship between composer and performer: Porqueddu himself. The pieces by Alberto Franco and Franco Cavallone were also composed with Porqueddu in mind, while the Sonatina Lirica by Segovia’s English pupil John Duarte is a hidden gem. ‘a most compelling collection from five composers, none of whom were guitarists… coruscating variety, fine recorded sound and lovingly shaped playing.’ (MusicWeb International). ‘Porqueddu’s work is once more of excellent quality and shows how he is able to create individual interpretations of contemporary repertoire.’ (Seicorde).