Porqueddu - Novecento Guitar Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is not a historical recording. Yet mysteriously the music is performed in an interpretation which is historically authentic down to the last detail. The key to this mystery is The original performer was present at the recent recording session, but not physically The music is heard on a modern Steinway. Never has music stored in the Welte-Mignon system sounded so InchrightInch or so good. Thanks to TACET's much-praised recording technique, and because the Welte-Mignon memory system and sound production mechanism have now been newly adjusted for the first time by the leading expert in the field - and are thus able to meet TACET's requirements. (Welte-Mignon was invented in 1904.) the Welte-Mignon mystery can now speak to US without distortion. Album Tracks 1. No. 10 Danza Triste in G Major 2. No. 7 Valenciana O Calesera in G Major 3. No. 5 Andaluza in E minor 4. Valses Poeticos 5. Piece de Scarlatti 6. No. 1 los Requiebros (Compliments) 7. No. 2. Coloquio en la Reja 8. No. 3. El Fandango de Candil 9. No. 4. Quejas O la Maja y El Ruisenor

Album Tracks 1. Suite Americana No. 1 Ragtime 2. Suite Americana No. 1 Bossa Nova 3. Suite Americana No. 1 Vals Peruano 4. Suite Americana No. 1 Zamba Gaucha 5. Suite Americana No. 1 Son de Mexico 6. Quintet Allegro Vivaci 7. Quintet Chaconne (Andante Con Moto) 8. Quintet Con Brio 9. Brass Quintet Opus 65 Andante Con Moto Allegro Con Brio 10. Brass Quintet Opus 65 Andantino Presto Andantino 11. Brass Quintet Opus 65 Molto Vivace 12. Quintet No. 1 Opus 5 Moderato 13. Quintet No. 1 Opus 5 Adagio (Non Troppo, Lento) 14. Quintet No. 1 Opus 5 Allegro Moderato 15. Music Hall Suite Soubrette Song 16. Music Hall Suite Trick-Cyclists 17. Music Hall Suite Adagio-Team 18. Music Hall Suite Soft Shoe Shuffle 19. Music Hall Suite Les Girls

Joining the extensive library of guitar music in the Brilliant Classics catalogue, Franco Cavallone is a worthy successor to Italian guitar composers from Giuliani to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He is an accomplished performer himself, having studied with the likes of Leo Brouwer and Angelo Gilardino, and the pieces recorded here have been composed with an intimate knowledge of the guitar's technical and timbral possibilities, which Cristiano Porqueddu exploits to the full, with the composer's enthusiastic approval 'He has managed to create a kaleidoscope of sound and sense that is truly rewarding for the listener. I am convinced that this album set is a benchmark recording for my music for the guitar.' Cavallone's mastery of diverse idioms is engagingly broad, making these four albums full of discovery and surprise. The four sonatas on album one are each conceived in homage to a different style 'to Ponce and Ravel', American composers, neoclassicism and to 20th century modernism. While Cavallone embraces rich dissonance and an impressionistic handling of chromaticism in the 12 Studies, he also writes with a moving simplicity in the homage to Tarrega, Di tante lagrime. A collection of six Hebrew melodies - dedicated to Porqueddu - demonstrates how effectively he can embroider and enrich folk and popular melodies, enhancing rather than detracting from their original character. Another 'homage' piece dedicated to Porqueddu is a three-movement sonata written with Benjamin Britten in mind, and recapturing some of the English composer's deft, economical sketching of situation and place in his late music, especially Venice. There are three vivid 'Suggestions' inspired by the paintings of Lia Laterza and a haunting set of variations on Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna'. A collection of 12 Short Preludes encapsulates Cavallone's eclectic language in microcosm, continually delighting