Cristiano Porqueddu - Greeting CardsBetween 1953 and 1967, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895 1968) wrote 53 works for various instrumental ensembles that were collected together as Opus 170 and given the title Greeting Cards. Castelnuovo Tedesco described them as 'alphabetic pieces': he derived their musical themes derived from ascending and descending chromatic scales, in which each note is combined with a letter of the alphabet. On this new album, Cristiano Porqueddu plays the 21

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