Novecento Guitar Variations

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 30, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Boris Vladimirovic Asafiev, Leonardo Balada, Oscar Bellomo, Lennox Berkeley, Ermanno Brignolo, Franc
    • PERFORMER
      Cristiano Porqueddu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 30, 2026
    • UPC
      5063758966511
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96651
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Theme: Menuet (Op. 24 No. 1)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    2. Variation 1: Marcia (Pensando a Beethoven)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    3. Variation 2: Sonatinetta (Pensando a Clementi)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    4. Variation 3: Ländler (Pensando a Schubert)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    5. Variation 4: Etude I (Pensando a Schumann)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    6. Variation 5: Nocturne (Pensando a Chopin)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    7. Variation 6: Canon (Pensando a Klengel)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    8. Variation 7: Etude II (Pensando a Schumann)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    9. Variation 8: Ballade (Pensando a Brahms)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    10. Variation 9: Scherzo (Pensando a Berlioz)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    11. Variation 10: Marche Funèbre (Pensando a Wagner)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    12. Variation 11: Berceuse (Pensando a Fauré)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    13. Variation 12: Prelude (Pensando a Scriabin)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    14. Variation 13: Intermezzo (Pensando a Schönberg)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    15. Variation 14: Fugue (Pensando a Busoni)

      Composer: Mark Delpriora

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    16. I. Prologo

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    17. II. Del Sentire

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    18. III. Estrema Ratio

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    19. IV. Berceuse

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    20. V. Burlesco

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    21. VI. Grenzsituationen

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    22. VII. Epilogo (Tema)

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    23. Metamorfosis de la Soledad

      Composer: Cristiano Porqueddu

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    24. Lento with Variation

      Composer: Leonardo Balada

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    25. Theme with Variations after Tchaikovsky

      Composer: Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    26. Theme and Variations, Op. 77

      Composer: Lennox Berkeley

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    27. Raighínas

      Composer: Ermanno Brignolo

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    28. Introduction

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    29. Variation 1

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    30. Variation 2

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    31. Variation 3

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    32. Variation 4

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    33. Variation 5

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    34. Variation 6

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    35. Variation 7

      Composer: John W. Duarte

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    36. Variation 1: Lento e pensoso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    37. Variation 2: Risoluto, ma non troppo mosso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    38. Variation 3: Andantino scorrevole e sommesso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    39. Variation 4: Allegro non troppo, ma assai energico

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    40. Variation 5: Andantino appena mosso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    41. Variation 6: Allegretto

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    42. Variation 7: Andante piùttosto lento

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    43. Variation 8: Agitato

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    44. Variation 9: Non troppo lento, con forte scansione

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    45. Variation 10: Rapido e lieve

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    46. Variation 11: Mosso, legato

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    47. Variation 12: Liberamente, come preludiando

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    48. Theme and Variations

      Composer: Eli Magen

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    49. Variazioni Sulla Follia

      Composer: Alberto Mariani

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    50. Thème et variations

      Composer: Fernande Peyrot

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    51. 10 Variations on an Armenian Theme

      Composer: Oscar Bellomo

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    52. Comme des variations

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    53. Di tante lagrime …

      Composer: Franco Cavallone

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    54. Theme: Andantino semplice

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    55. Variation 1: Burlesco

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    56. Variation 2: Agile

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    57. Variation 3: Grazioso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    58. Variation 4: Dolce e cullante

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    59. Variation 5: Come un mormorio

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    60. Variation 6: Risoluto

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    61. Variation 7: Agitato

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    62. Variation 8: Reverie

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    63. Variation 9: Allegro vorticoso

      Composer: Angelo Gilardino

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    64. Variants on 2 Themes of J.S. Bach

      Composer: Reginald Smith Brindle

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu

    65. Variazioni su El Testament d'Amelia di Llobet

      Composer: Kevin Swierkosz-Lenart

      Performer: Cristiano Porqueddu


The dazzling Sardinian guitarist returns to the studios for a breathtaking compendium of variation sets, many of them never recorded before, by many of the most enduring names in guitar composition of the last century. Through the course of his long partnership with Brilliant Classics, Cristiano Porqueddu has attracted superlatives and enthusiasm from all corners of the critical press and listeners everywhere. There's no denying the ability of Cristiano Porqueddu,' wrote David Hurwitz in Classics Today, citing the guitarist's 'rich sound and dexterous handling of his instrument.' His colleague Jed Distler noted that Porqueddu's 'nuanced articulation allows him to sustain and spin out legato lines as if his fingers had bows.' Porqueddu's collection of 20th-century variation sets surveys a kaleidoscopic variety of styles and idioms, demonstrating in the process the guitarist's own breadth of vision as well as his virtuosic technique and insightful musicianship. He begins with a monster of the form: the 45-minute sequence of variations on a theme of Fernando Sor, by the US composer Mark Delpriora. Musician and listener are taken on an astonishing tour de force of invention, as Sor's melancholy tune becomes the raw text for vivid pastiches and parodies in the style of canon composers from Beethoven through to Schoenberg and Busoni. Characteristically, set the challenge to 'follow that', Porqueddu does just that, with a work of his own, which takes it's inspiration from Foucault's Pendulum. On the following discs, the withdrawn, lyrical chromaticism presents a compelling contrast with both the Russian romanticism of Boris Asafiev preceding him, and the implacable shadows of the Raighines by Ermanno Brignolo. This last work was composed for Porqueddu himself, while John Duarte's Variations on a Catalan Folksong were composed in 1956 at the suggestion of John Williams; and it is in this distinguished lineage that Porqueddu belongs. Some of the following works inspire wonder at their intricacy (both executive and compositional), such as the interwoven Variants on Two Themes of Bach by Reginald Smith-Brindle, while others major on charm, such as the first set of Mozartiana composed by Porqueddu's teacher, Angelo Gilardino. There's something for everyone.