Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Platero y yo

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Label
Tactus
Release Date
April 4, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    • PERFORMER
      Stephen Figoni, Laura Aguzzoni, Olimpia Pizzol
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 04, 2025
    • UPC
      8007194108156
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TC890301
    • LABEL
      Tactus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Guitar
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Platero

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    2. VIII. Amistad (Amicizia – Friendship)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    3. XI. Ronsard

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Olimpia Pizzol, Stephen Figoni

    4. II. Angelus!

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    5. III. Retorno (Ritorno - Return)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    6. IV. La primavera (La primavera - Spring)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    7. V. El Pozo (Il Pozzo - The Well)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    8. VI. Gorriones (I Passeri - The Sparrows)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    9. XVI. Idilio de abril (Idillio d'Aprile - April Idyll)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    10. XXI. La muerte (La Morte - Death)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    11. VII. Melancolía (Malinconia - Melancholy)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    12. XXIV. La flor del camino (Il Fiore del Sentiero - The Wayside Flower)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni

    13. Platero y yo, Op. 190: I. Platero (version with narration in Spanish)

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Laura Aguzzoni, Stephen Figoni


Juan Ramon Jimenez is the author of the famous poetic prose in 138 short episodes, Platero y yo, which he wrote in 1914. Spokesman of the simplicity of life and poet with a strong sensitivity, he tells a story, imbued with a classic sense of form and at the same time "moral," of his return to the land of his childhood and of his encounter with the donkey, Platero. The images that the poet shows us through the eyes of the young donkey are those of a typical Spanish landscape made of scenes of uncontaminated and pure life. From the fairy-tale adventure of these pages full of pure poetry, love and nostalgia one doesn't doesn't leave untouched. The reader that follows the narrative ends up finding himself with a child's gaze full of wonder and overcome by the affection of this magical journey. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, therefore, recognized the value of this work and chose to set some of the scenes to music, not for guitar and sung voice (principally) but for guitar and narrator. It is evident after reading the literary pieces that the criteria for his selection was the aesthetic contents and the evident "translatability" of the contents into a purely musical language. Guitarist Stephen Figoni and the voices of Laura Aguzzoni and Olimpia Pizzol guide us into the simple, enchanted world evoked by the two great artists' contributions.