Angelo Gilardino

Angelo Gilardino (born 1941 in Vercelli) is an Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist.

During his concert career, from 1958 to 1981, he premiered hundreds of new works for the guitar. He taught at the Liceo Musicale "G. B. Viotti" in Vercelli from 1965 to 1981, and held a professorship at the Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria from 1981 to 2004. The Conservatory awarded him the Marengo Music Prize in 1998.

Gilardino has composed much music for solo guitar, as well as chamber music and concertos. His solo works include five volumes of "Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza" (1981-1988), two numbered sonatas (1985, 1986) as well as several titled sonatas and sonatinas, two sets of variations (1989, 1991), and "Ikonostas" for a guitar tuned in G (2004). He has also written four works for guitar with guitar orchestra, seven concertos for guitar, some in combination with other instruments (including mandolin and accordion), and several duets (for guitar with bassoon, cello, violin and vibraphone).

From 1967 to 2006, Gilardino supervised the publication of hundreds of new guitar works by Edizioni Musicali Bèrben. He has also discoved the "Variazioni" by Ottorino Respighi and several works written for the guitarist Andrés Segovia by Cyril Scott, Pierre de Bréville, Lennox Berkeley and many others. He was artistic director of the [http://www.segoviamuseo.com/ Andrés Segovia Foundation] of Linares from 1997 to 2005.

List of works

olo guitar

*"Canzone Notturna" (1968)
*"Estrellas para Estarellas" (1970)
*"Abreuana" (1971)
*"Araucaria" (1971)
*"Appaloosa" (1972)
*"Luceat" (1972)
*"Trepidazioni per Thebit" (1972)
*"Ocram" (1973)
*"Tenebrae factae sunt" (1973)
*"Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza" (1981-1988)
*"Sonata No. 1 (Omaggio ad Antonio Fontanesi)" (1985)
*"Sonata No. 2 (Hivern florit)" (1986)
*"Variazioni sulla Follìa" (1989)
*"Musica per l'angelo della Melancholìa" (1991)
*"Variazioni sulla Fortuna" (Nell'antologia "Fortune 1993") (1991)
*"Winterzeit" after Robert Schumann (2000)
*"Colloquio con Andrés Segovia" (2002)
*"Sonatine des fleurs et des oiseaux" (2002)
*"Tríptico de las visiones" (2002)
*"Catskill Pond" (2003)
*"La casa del faro" (2003)
*"Sonata Mediterranea" (2004)
*"Sonata del Guadalquivir" (2004)
*"Annunciazione (Omaggio al Beato Angelico)" (2004)
*"Ikonostas (Omaggio a Pavel Florenskij)" (2004)
*"Memory of Antinous (Omaggio a Marguerite Yourcenar)" (2004)
*"A Quiet Song - To the memory of John W. Duarte" (2005)

Guitar and guitar ensemble

*"Concerto d'estate" for guitar and guitar quartet (1992)
*"Concierto de Córdoba" for guitar and guitar quartet (1993)
*"Poema d'inverno" for guitar and guitar duo (1994)
*"Concerto d'autunno" for guitar and small guitar orchestra (1994-1995)

Guitar and orchestra

*"Leçons de Ténèbres" - concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra (1996)
*"Fiori di novembre" - concerto for mandolin, guitar and chamber orchestra (1997)
*"Concerto Italiano" for four guitars and orchestra (1998)
*"La casa delle ombre" - concerto for flute, guitar and strings (1999)
*"Liederkonzert" for two guitars and chamber orchestra (2000)
*"En las tierras altas" - concerto for accordion, guitar and strings (2001)
*"Star of the Morning" for guitar, cello and orchestra (2004)
*"Concerto-Serenata" for bass clarinet, guitar and strings (2006)
*"Concerto di Novgorod" for Russian seven-string guitar and orchestra (2006)
*"Concerto di Oliena" for guitar and orchestra (2007)

Chamber music

*"Preghiere per gli innocenti" for voice and guitar (1997)
*"Canzoni dimenticate" (1999)
*"Sonatina-Lied No. 1" for bassoon and guitar (1999)
*"Sonatina-Lied No. 2" for violin and guitar (2000)
*"Fantasia concertante" sul "Gran Solo" op. 14 di Sor for violin, viola, cello and guitar (2000)
*"Retrato de Andrés Segovia" for string orchestra (2001)
*"Sonata Romantica (Homage to Franz Schubert)" for cello and guitar: an elaboration of the piece of the same name by Manuel M. Ponce for solo guitar (2002)
*"Retrato de Francisco Tárrega" for chamber orchestra with guitar (2004)
*"Partita" for vibraphone and guitar (2005)
*"Sonatina-Lied No. 3" for flute and guitar (2005)
*"Iberia (da Albéniz e Tárrega)" for flute, viola and guitar (2006)
*"Sonatina-Lied No. 4" for mandolin and guitar (2006)
*"Quartetto "I castelli d'acqua" for two mandolins, mandola and guitar (2006)
*"Sonatina-Lied No. 5" for oboe and guitar (2006)
*"Feste lontane - Sinfonietta" for four guitars (2007)

Complete Discography

*LUIGI ATTADEMO - plays “Variazioni sulla Follìa”CD “Folías”Guitart Collection Guit 2026www.luigiattademo.it

GIANLUCA BARBERO plays "Studio n. 6 – Soledad - Omaggio a Francisco Goya”“Studio n. 47 – Le rose sulla neve – In memoriam Eso Peluzzi”Map – Lr Cd 116

LUIGI BISCALDI and QUARTETTO DI ASTIplays“Concerto d’estate” per chitarra sola e quartetto di chitarre“Concierto de Córdoba” para guitarra solista y cuarteto de guitarrasBERCD 833-2 Bèrben

PIERO BONAGURIesegue “Colloquio con Andrés Segovia”“Pocci 2004” Guitar ReferenceVP Music Media

Chitarrista MICHAEL BRACKENplays “Sonata n. 2 – Hivern Florit”“Good News”Atma Disques TRIO CITHAROEDIAplays“Poema d’inverno” per tre chitarre“Ferenc Farkas, Angelo GilardinoComplete works for Guitar Trio”NIC 1051 - Guitart Collection

ANGELO COLONEplays“Studio n. 18 – Omaggio a de Falla”“Sintesi”Map – Lr Cd 087

ANGELO COLONEesegueplays“Tema con variazioni (Omaggio a Fernando Sor)”“Già la pioggia è con noi (Omaggio a Salvatore Quasimodo)”“Sacrificio” (Omaggio ad Agustin Barrios Mangoré)“Concerto per chitarra e orchestra da camera – Leçons de Ténèbres”“Jondo (Omaggio a Joaquin Turina)“Soledad (Omaggio a Francisco Goya)“Paesaggio lucano (Omaggio al pittore Mauro Masi)”CD “Angelo Angelo”www.angelocolone.it

MARCO DE SANTIplays“Quattro Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza”“Ocram”EMI I.071

WILLIAM FEASLEYplays “Soledad (Omaggio a Francisco Goya)”“Echoes of Goya”SONORA SO22587CD

FABIO FEDERICOplays“Elegia di marzo”“Mediterranea”“Alleluia”“El rosario”“Jondo”CD “Estudios”Etnoworld Classicalwww.fabiofederico.com

REZA GANJAVIplays “Canzoni Dimenticate”per varie formazioni a duo con chitarraCD “In Friendship” TILMAN HOPPSTOCKplays“Etude n. 3”CD “The 20th Century Guitar”Signum SigX90-00

LUIGI GIFFIplays “Elegia di marzo”“Sacrificio”“Quattuor in Musica”

MARTHA MASTERSplays“Colloquio con Andrés Segovia”CD “Viaggio in Italia”GSP1031CD ALBERTO MESIRCAplays“Annunciazione – Omaggio al Beato Angelico”“Ikonostas – Omaggio a Pavel Florenskij“Ikonostas”Map – Lr Cd 112

MICHAEL PARTINGTONplays“Studio n. 12 (Omaggio a Prokofiev)”“20th Century Guitar”Roserecord Rose 1004CD

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDUplays“Sonata n. 2 - Hivern Florit”“Embarquement pour Cithère”“Omaggio a Sergej Prokof’ev”“Les arbres rouges”Seicorde 188ITwww.cristianoporqueddu.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDUplays“Studies 1-12”CD Trascendentia Vol.ISeicorde 188ITwww.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDUplays“Studies 13-24”Trascendentia Vol.IISeicorde 188ITwww.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDUplays“Studies 25-36”Trascendentia Vol.IIISeicorde 188ITwww.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDUplays“Studies 37-48”Trascendentia Vol IVSeicorde SNR019www.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDUplays“Studies 49-60”Trascendentia Vol Vwww.trascendentia.com

MARCELLO RIVELLIplays“Sonata n. 2 - Hivern Florit”Guitart Collection Guit 2030

GIANLUCA SABBADINplays“Studio n. 47 – Le rose sulla neve”“Studio n, 18 – El rosario”“Studio n. 4 – Elegia di marzo”CD "Recital per chitarra sola"

GIULIO TAMPALINIplays“Works for Guitar 2002-2004”www.giuliotampalini.it -->

External links

* [http://www.angelogilardino.com/Inglese/MainEng.htm Angelo Gilardino Website] Angelo Gilardino official website
* [http://calatrava.livejournal.com AG Blog ] Angelo Gilardino official blog

Recordings

* [http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/IGRAdiscography&CISOBOX1=Gilardino%2C+Angelo LP recordings / Liner Notes] (Oviatt Library Digital Collections)