Riccardo D'Alo, Lorenzo Micheli Pucci - Porqueddu: The Impressionistic Guitar (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Porqueddu Sonata No. 1, des couleurs sur la Toile I. Les fleurs Imaginaires
02. Porqueddu Sonata No. 1, des couleurs sur la Toile II. Chanson au Crepuscule
03. Porqueddu Sonata No. 1, des couleurs sur la Toile III. La terre des Lumieres
04. Porqueddu Sonata No. 2, sonata di Picerno I. Racconti dal li Foj
05. Porqueddu Sonata No. 2, sonata di Picerno II. I monti Blu
06. Porqueddu Sonata No. 2, sonata di Picerno III. Campane a Festa
07. Porqueddu Sonata No. 3, Il rito del Fuoco I. Allegro Fantastico
08. Porqueddu Sonata No. 3, Il rito del Fuoco II. Adagio Incantato
09. Porqueddu Sonata No. 3, Il rito del Fuoco III. Mosso Misterioso
10. Porqueddu Diptico de la Oscuridad I. El lejano Tanido
11. Porqueddu Diptico de la Oscuridad II. La manana llena de Tempestad
12. Porqueddu Metamorfosis de la Soledad I. Grave
13. Porqueddu Metamorfosis de la Soledad II. Allegro non Troppo
14. Porqueddu Metamorfosis de la Soledad III. Come una Canzone
15. Porqueddu Metamorfosis de la Soledad IV. Adagio
16. Porqueddu Metamorfosis de la Soledad V. Andantino con grazia e Tema
17. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang I. The Snow in the Evening on the Xiang River
18. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang II. The Rain at Night on the Xiaoxiang
19. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang III. The Wild Geese Coming Home
20. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang IV. The Evening Gong at Qingliang Temple
21. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang V. The Temple in the Mountain
22. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang VI. The Fishing Village in the Evening Glow
23. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang VII. The Moon in Autumn on Dongting Lake
24. Porqueddu Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang VIII. The Sailing Ship Returning Home

The first disc in this two-CD set contains Sardinian composer Cristiano Porqueddu’s first three sonatas for solo guitar, written between 2013 and 2019 and performed here by his compatriot Riccardo D’Alò. ‘Des couleurs sur la toile’, in three movements, pays homage to the painter Gesuino Curreli, the composer’s maternal uncle, who paints landscapes of contemporary Oliena, a town in northern Sardinia. ‘Sonata di Picerno’ – completed in 2015 and dedicated to Italian guitarist Christian Saggese – is a musical portrait of the distinctive town of Picerno in the beautiful Basilicata region of Italy. All three of its movements narrate an entirely fictional leyenda (legend). Sonata No.3, ‘Il rito del fuoco’, is based on an ancient Sardinian legend that tells of Saint Anthony and his pig stealing fire from hell to give to humanity. It is a cyclical composition, which remains anchored in the harmonic and thematic elements introduced in the first section throughout.

The recordings on disc two – performed by Lorenzo Micheli Pucci, a guitarist from Piedmont in northern Italy – were written by Porqueddu between 2011 and 2020. Díptico de la oscuridad is a homage to Pablo Neruda’s poetic atmospheres and is dedicated to Italo-Australian guitarist Ermanno Brignolo. Metamórfosis de la soledad, dedicated to Italian guitarist Alberto Mesirca, stems directly from observing the artistic solitude glimpsed by the composer in artwork by Gastone Cecconello on a personal visit to his studio. It takes the form of a series of short movements based on Angelo Gilardino’s study ‘Soledad’ from his collection Studi di Virtuosità e di Trascendenza. These movements offer a prismatic vision of the material from the introduction to the study, heavily abridged to allow it to be used as a theme for a cycle of variations. In 2019 and 2020, Porqueddu’s figurative art studies led him to discover the wonderful ancient Chinese artwork Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, a set of eight parchments dating from the Song Dynasty, approximately 1150 AD. Porqueddu wrote the solo Studies from Eight Views from Xiaoxiang while studying Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s 21 Greeting Cards for guitar. They are built on clearly identifiable melodic sketches, and alternate between demanding technical skill and a capacity for introspection from the performer.

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