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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete Organ Works / Mazzanti
Aeolus

Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete Organ Works / Mazzanti

$21.99

Details

Composer
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, MARIO
Artist
Livia Mazzanti
Format
SACD
Label
Aeolus
Released
Apr 01, 2009
Catalog #
AE10541
UPC
4026798105419

About

With this SACD Aeolus is once more presenting world premier recordings.

In the music world the name of the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is mostly known for his numerous compositions for guitar. The fact that he also wrote a good hour of excellent organ music is proved by our new release with the Italian artist Livia Mazzanti. It is interesting to see that the composer wrote music for the organ for the first time only after his emigration in the USA - as an Italian Jew he felt constrained to leave country under the Mussolini dictatorship. It was when he received a Christmas card from his friend Edward Power-Biggs in 1952 that Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco had the idea of composing a miniature Fanfare for organ based on the letters of the organist’s rather unusual name. This fanfare in six bars, was played by Power Biggs and broadcast on the radio. Power-Biggs encouraged him to work out this fragment to an entire composition.

Thus originated as the first organ work Introduction, Aria and Fugue. By the way, you can listen to this fanfare on this website (sound sample 1). The extensive booklet to our SACD informs about the backgrounds and the origin of the remaining works (for instance music for the synagogue, two experimental serial works as well as other free pieces) and other biographical details.

Without Livia's painstaking efforts, this innovative new recording would not have been possible. She alone did all the hard work of rediscovering and preparing this music for performance. Among other things, she perfected an innovative registration for all these pieces in the years leading up to the recording itself. We must thank her for her attentive, sensitive reading of these unfairly neglected works, bringing them back from obscurity with her tireless devotion to Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s witty compositions. Her musical intelligence and poetic imagination mean she is a peerless, bold, yet demanding performer.

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. 1 Introduction 02:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    Introduction
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  2. 2 Aria 04:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    Aria
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  3. 3 Fugue 03:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    Fugue
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  4. 4 Consolation 03:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    Consolation
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  5. 5 Adoration 02:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    Adoration
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  6. 6 Invocation 01:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    Invocation
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  7. 7 Silent devotion 03:28
    Track
    7
    Title
    Silent devotion
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  8. 8 Lamentation 02:56
    Track
    8
    Title
    Lamentation
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  9. 9 Prelude 08:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    Prelude
    Duration
    08:02
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  10. 10 Fanfare 02:45
    Track
    10
    Title
    Fanfare
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  11. 11 Prelude on the name of Frederick Tulan, Op. 170, No. 49 02:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    Prelude on the name of Frederick Tulan, Op. 170, No. 49
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  12. 12 Choral 04:35
    Track
    12
    Title
    Choral
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  13. 13 Prelude 04:46
    Track
    13
    Title
    Prelude
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  14. 14 I. Tema 02:10
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Tema
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  15. 15 II. Hashkivenu 02:05
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Hashkivenu
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  16. 16 III. Lecho dodi 01:51
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Lecho dodi
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  17. 17 IV. Vaani s'filosi 04:23
    Track
    17
    Title
    IV. Vaani s'filosi
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  18. 18 V. Ra'u Banim 01:47
    Track
    18
    Title
    V. Ra'u Banim
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti
  19. 19 VI. Hashkivenu 2 05:10
    Track
    19
    Title
    VI. Hashkivenu 2
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Livia Mazzanti