Castelnuovo-Tedesco: 24 Caprichos De Goya / Zoran Dukic

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 31, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, MARIO
    • PERFORMER
      Zoran Dukic
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 31, 2009
    • UPC
      747313225279
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572252-53
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor (Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Painter)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    2. No. 2. Tal para qual (Two of a kind)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    3. No. 3. Nadie se conoce (Nobody knows oneself)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    4. No. 4. Ni asi la distingue (Even so he cannot make her out)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    5. No. 5. Muchachos al avio (The boys getting ready)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    6. No. 6. El amor y la muerte (Love and death)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    7. No. 7. Estan calientes (They are hot)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    8. No. 8. Dios la perdone: Y era su madre (God forgive her: and it was her mother)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    9. No. 9. Bien tirada esta (It is nicely stretched)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    10. No. 10. Al Conde Palatino (To the Count Palatine)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    11. No. 11. Y se le quema la casa (And he's burning down the house)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    12. No. 12. No hubo remedio (Nothing could be done about it)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    13. No. 13. Quien mas rendido? (Which of them is more overwhelmed?)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    14. No. 14. Porque fue sensible (Because she was sensitive)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    15. No. 15. Si sabra mas el discipulo? (Perhaps the pupil knows better?)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    16. No. 16. Brabisimo! (Bravissimo!)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    17. No. 17. De que mal morira? (Of what ill will he die?)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    18. No. 18. El sueno de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    19. No. 19. Hilan delgado (They spin finely)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    20. No. 20. Obsequio a el maestro (Gift to the master)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    21. No. 21. Que pico de oro! (What a golden beak!)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    22. No. 22. Volaverunt (Off they flew)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    23. No. 23. Linda maestra! (Pretty teacher!)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic

    24. No. 24. Sueno de la mentira y inconstancia (Dream of lying and inconstancy)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Zoran Dukic


The booklet accompanying this release reproduces each of the Goya etchings that inspired the 24 individual pieces within Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's solo-guitar suite, 24 Caprichos de Goya. To my eyes and ears Goya's stylized grotesquerie and twisted expressive palette has little in common with Castelnuovo-Tedesco's gentle, conservative, and masterfully idiomatic guitar writing. To be sure, there are inspired moments, such as No. 17's dissonant rapid repeated notes and drum-roll imitations, or No. 22's harmonically sophisticated cascading arpeggios, but don't expect an epic, six-stringed equivalent to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Had the composer bagged his Goya subtext and simply titled this suite "Guitar Moods", he would have been right on the money. In any event, Zoran Dukic's sense of color and textural variety, his seamless technique, and his lyrical disposition serve this music beautifully, as does Naxos' warm, spacious engineering.

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com