Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Violin and Piano / Gran Duo Italiano

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
October 5, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, MARIO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Gran Duo Italiano
    • PERFORMER
      GRAN DUO ITALIANO
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 05, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421956428
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95642
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Dolce e tranquillo

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    2. II. Con grazia

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    3. No. 1. La sera per il fresco è un bel cantare

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    4. No. 2. Stanotte son dormito a ciel sereno

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    5. No. 3. Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    6. Ritmi, Op. 15

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    7. Capitan Fracassa, Op. 16

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    8. Notturno adriatico, Op. 34

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    9. I. Prologue: Moderato e pensoso

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    10. II. Intermezzo: Vivace e danzante

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    11. III. Epilogue: Calmo

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    12. Vol. 6, No. 2. Arise, "Sea Murmurs"

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    13. Vol. 8, No. 3. Two Maids Wooing a Man, "Tango"

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    14. Figaro (from Rossini's The Barber of Seville) (version for violin and piano)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    15. I. Overture

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    16. II. Romance

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    17. III. Valse

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    18. IV. Tyrolienne

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    19. V. Rataplan (Rondo militare)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    20. Exotica: A Rhapsody of the South Seas

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    21. The Lark, Op. 64

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    22. No. 23. Intermezzo on the Name of Harvey Siegal

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    23. No. 25. Hungarian serenade on the Name of Miklós Rózsa

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    24. No. 1. Entrata

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    25. No. 2. Pavane

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    26. No. 3. Tambourin

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    27. No. 4. Aria

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    28. No. 5. Toccata

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    29. No. 6. Gavotta variata

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano

    30. No. 7. Gigue

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Ensemble: Gran Duo Italiano


Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968) may still be regarded primarily as a composer for guitar, best known through his working partnership with Andres Segovia, but Brilliant Classics has illuminated other sides to this prolific musician through first recordings and modern rediscoveries of his piano music (BC94811) and his songs, most notably his settings of Shakespeare (BC95548). Now the focus falls on his chamber music, with these new studio recordings of suites, sonatas, tone-poems and fantasies. From the piquant miniatures of the two Signorine Op.10 to the neoclassically economical Suite 508 Op.170, all the works here abound in the bitter-sweet harmonies and soaring melodic rapture which gave a distinctive flavour to Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s music throughout his long career. Song without words is another thread to his output, first encountered here in the Tre canti all’aria aperta from 1919. Tuscan folksong and medieval troubadour tradition are spiced with Bartokian harmony in a fresh and appealing combination. The writing for the string instruments is reliably extrovert and idiomatic, influenced by the music’s dedicatees and first performers such as Jascha Heifetz, Albert Spalding and Adila Fachiri, grandniece of Joseph Joachim. Notturno Adriatico is a tranquil, dream-like tone-picture with a tenuous hold on the repertoire, like the virtuoso flourish of Exotica: A Rhapsody of the South Seas. However, the extensive fantasy on themes from Donizetti’s La fille du regiment is a substantial rarity which deserves much wider currency. In the same tradition of the operatic fantasy is a paraphrase of Rossini’s ‘Largo al factotum’; like the two deft miniatures from a series of Greetings Cards Op.170, the paraphrase was issued in print, whereas most of the five-movement Donizetti fantasy remains unpublished. So does the Suite 508 for viola and piano, composed in 1960. With typical ingenuity, Castelnuovo-Tedesco works in the name of the different dedicatees to each of the seven movements, resulting in chromaticism on the verge of atonality at times, but reliably handled with verve and melodic prominence.