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

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Details

Composer
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, MARIO
Artist
GRAN DUO ITALIANO
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Oct 05, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95642
UPC
5028421956428

About

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Greetings Cards Op.170, the paraphrase was issued in print, whereas most of the five-movement Donizetti fantasy remains unpublished.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.

Tracklist 30 tracks

  1. 1 I. Dolce e tranquillo 03:18
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Dolce e tranquillo
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  2. 2 II. Con grazia 02:59
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Con grazia
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  3. 3 No. 1. La sera per il fresco è un bel cantare 12:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. La sera per il fresco è un bel cantare
    Duration
    12:30
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  4. 4 No. 2. Stanotte son dormito a ciel sereno 07:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 2. Stanotte son dormito a ciel sereno
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  5. 5 No. 3. Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca 07:04
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 3. Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  6. 6 Ritmi, Op. 15 04:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    Ritmi, Op. 15
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  7. 7 Capitan Fracassa, Op. 16 03:31
    Track
    7
    Title
    Capitan Fracassa, Op. 16
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  8. 8 Notturno adriatico, Op. 34 06:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    Notturno adriatico, Op. 34
    Duration
    06:00
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  9. 9 I. Prologue: Moderato e pensoso 07:00
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Prologue: Moderato e pensoso
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  10. 10 II. Intermezzo: Vivace e danzante 04:09
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Intermezzo: Vivace e danzante
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  11. 11 III. Epilogue: Calmo 08:21
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Epilogue: Calmo
    Duration
    08:21
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  12. 12 Vol. 6, No. 2. Arise, "Sea Murmurs" 02:04
    Track
    12
    Title
    Vol. 6, No. 2. Arise, "Sea Murmurs"
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  13. 13 Vol. 8, No. 3. Two Maids Wooing a Man, "Tango" 02:16
    Track
    13
    Title
    Vol. 8, No. 3. Two Maids Wooing a Man, "Tango"
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  14. 14 Figaro (from Rossini's The Barber of Seville) (version for violin and piano) 06:15
    Track
    14
    Title
    Figaro (from Rossini's The Barber of Seville) (version for violin and piano)
    Duration
    06:15
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  15. 15 I. Overture 06:29
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. Overture
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  16. 16 II. Romance 04:36
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. Romance
    Duration
    04:36
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  17. 17 III. Valse 05:06
    Track
    17
    Title
    III. Valse
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  18. 18 IV. Tyrolienne 03:43
    Track
    18
    Title
    IV. Tyrolienne
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  19. 19 V. Rataplan (Rondo militare) 05:07
    Track
    19
    Title
    V. Rataplan (Rondo militare)
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  20. 20 Exotica: A Rhapsody of the South Seas 11:54
    Track
    20
    Title
    Exotica: A Rhapsody of the South Seas
    Duration
    11:54
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  21. 21 The Lark, Op. 64 12:06
    Track
    21
    Title
    The Lark, Op. 64
    Duration
    12:06
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  22. 22 No. 23. Intermezzo on the Name of Harvey Siegal 04:51
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 23. Intermezzo on the Name of Harvey Siegal
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  23. 23 No. 25. Hungarian serenade on the Name of Miklós Rózsa 04:27
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 25. Hungarian serenade on the Name of Miklós Rózsa
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  24. 24 No. 1. Entrata 03:17
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 1. Entrata
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  25. 25 No. 2. Pavane 01:55
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 2. Pavane
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  26. 26 No. 3. Tambourin 01:21
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 3. Tambourin
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  27. 27 No. 4. Aria 04:33
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 4. Aria
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  28. 28 No. 5. Toccata 02:44
    Track
    28
    Title
    No. 5. Toccata
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  29. 29 No. 6. Gavotta variata 01:43
    Track
    29
    Title
    No. 6. Gavotta variata
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  30. 30 No. 7. Gigue 01:58
    Track
    30
    Title
    No. 7. Gigue
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano