Russian Guitar Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95385
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th May 2017
Contents
Works
Etude no.1Etude no.2
Prelude et Valse
Preludes (12) for guitar
Romances (6) in Old Style
Theme with Variations after Tchaikovsky
Guitar Sonata no.1
Guitar Sonata no.2
Guitar Sonata no.3
Stichera (5) for guitar
Guitar Sonata
Two Visions in White (in a cold winter morning)
Serenade
Toccata
Prelude in D minor
Prelude in E minor
Preludes (4) for guitar
Sonatine
Guitar Sonata
Dedication to the Russian Land
Guitar Sonata
The Old Lime Tree
Artists
Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar)Works
Etude no.1Etude no.2
Prelude et Valse
Preludes (12) for guitar
Romances (6) in Old Style
Theme with Variations after Tchaikovsky
Guitar Sonata no.1
Guitar Sonata no.2
Guitar Sonata no.3
Stichera (5) for guitar
Guitar Sonata
Two Visions in White (in a cold winter morning)
Serenade
Toccata
Prelude in D minor
Prelude in E minor
Preludes (4) for guitar
Sonatine
Guitar Sonata
Dedication to the Russian Land
Guitar Sonata
The Old Lime Tree
Artists
Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar)About
As a detailed booklet essay complementing this new recording explains, the guitar flourished during the first half of the 19th century in Russia. Towards the turn of the 20th century, it became more of a folk instrument, a trend further exaggerated by the cultural demands of the Russian revolution which repurposed both instruments and musicians to vernacular ends for songs and marches to raise the spirits. However, a renaissance took place in classical guitar composition following the triumphant tour of Andres Segovia across Soviet Russia in 1926.
The impact of that event may be felt not only in the work of Boris Asafiev, who saw Segovia play, but even two generations later in the Hispanic flair of Edison Denisov’s Sonata, with its edgy opening Toccata, gently swaying Berceuse and picture‐postcard ‘Souvenir d’Espagne’; in itself this revives the kind of naturalistic love‐affair of Russian artists with the country that had produced Glinka’s Jota aragonesa and Rimsky‐Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.
But there is much more here than picture-postcard imitation and love in a cold climate. Local Georgian rhythms and traditions may be savoured in the Sonata of Gherman Dzhaparidze; there are two early, vibrant miniatures of Sofia Gudaidulina; the work of more guitar‐specialised composers such as Vitaly Kharisov, Valeri Kikta and Viktor Kozlov is much less well‐known outside their native land.
To all of them Cristiano Porqueddu brings the technical mastery and interpretative conviction which has distinguished his work for Brilliant Classics, in boxes such as the set of 20th‐century guitar sonatas (BC9455) which includes an earlier recording of the First Sonata by Evgeny Baev.
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