Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Greeting Cards
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96051
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 18th November 2022
Contents
Works
Greeting Cards, op.170Sonata Mediterranea
Artists
Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar)Works
Greeting Cards, op.170Sonata Mediterranea
Artists
Cristiano Porqueddu (guitar)About
On this new album, Cristiano Porqueddu plays the 21 Greeting Cards composed for the guitar. They are small, unexpected homages that Castelnuovo-Tedesco liked to give his friends, to musicians who played his works, to his pupils and occasionally also to people who were not musicians. He later declared them to be minor works, but each of them is filled with affection, regardless of the professional status of the subject. In this imaginary gallery there are thus portrayals of legendary musicians such as Jascha Heifetz and Andrés Segovia alongside several of his students, including André Previn, Christopher Parkening and Eugene Robin Escovado.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco made each Greeting Card a vivid portrait of the dedicatee, usually by combining rhythms and atmospheres that reflected nationality, as with the Tonadilla sul nome di Andrés Segovia or the Canción venezolana sul nome di Alirio Díaz. However, there are also more abstract references, such as the Rondel on the name of Siegfried Behrend (no.6) or evocations generated by the name itself: the Fantasia sul nome di Henry e Ronald Purcell (no.38), for instance, or the Volo d’Angeli sul nome di Angelo Gilardino (no.47). What they all have in common is a depth of feeling that transcends their superficial status as ‘occasional’ pieces.
The Sardinian guitarist Cristiano Porqueddu has become known as a major interpreter of modern guitar music, not least thanks to his extensive catalogue of recordings on Brilliant Classics. This includes his own music – solo and concertos – as well as albums dedicated to his teacher Angelo Gilardino and wide-ranging collections of works by European and American composers, many of which were composed especially for him.
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