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Castlenuovo-Tedesco: The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra - Complete Music for Soprano & Guitar / Kilsowska, Tampalini
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Castlenuovo-Tedesco: The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra - Complete Music for Soprano & Guitar / Kilsowska, Tampalini

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Composer
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, MARIO
Artist
Klisowska, Tampalini
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Sep 22, 2017
Catalog #
BRI95282
UPC
5028421952826

About

This is the fourth volume on Brilliant Classics of the vibrantly cosmopolitan music of the Jewish-Italian, US composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. His heritage is reflected in this substantial song-cycle for soprano and guitar, receiving here only its second modern recording. The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra is a setting of 19 poems, in a modern English translation, by a medieval Spanish Jew who wrote, like Castelnuovo-Tedesco almost a millennium later, in exile. Thus the subject of its first section is ‘Songs of Wandering’, before friendship and love turn sour in the second section. Sorrow and defeat also mark the third, ‘Of Wine, and of the Delights of the Sons of Men’ – though still within the composer’s appealingly melodic vein – before the return of spring and a more positive outlook to close the cycle, in which the poet bravely faces ‘The World and its Vicissitudes’ before contemplating mortality with calm resignation in a moving epilogue. The piece is a substantial addition to the growing discography of the composer on Brilliant Classics, including releases dedicated to his guitar studies (BC95219), duets (BC94833), concertos (BC7615) and piano music (BC94811), as well as samples of his prolific output on several compilations. The fine Italian guitarist Giulio Tampalini has his own impressive discography on the label, in music by Paganini (BC95031), Mozzani and Respighi (BC95230), Tarrega (BC94336) and more. Here he is joined by the Polish soprano Joanna Klisowska, who has sung with many major European early-music ensembles. The album is completed with individual songs in Spanish and Italian as well as two settings of Shakespeare. Ranging in date across the composer’s long career, they exhibit his full stylistic range, from the impressionistic, late-Romantic language of the English songs to the more harmonically adventurous terrain of two Spanish folksongs.

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. When the Morning of Life Had Passed 02:39
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. When the Morning of Life Had Passed
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  2. 2 No. 2. The dove that nests in the tree-top 02:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. The dove that nests in the tree-top
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  3. 3 No. 3. Wrung with Anguish 01:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Wrung with Anguish
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  4. 4 No. 4. Sorrow shatters my heart 02:15
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Sorrow shatters my heart
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  5. 5 No. 5. Fate has blocked the way 04:15
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Fate has blocked the way
    Duration
    04:15
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  6. 6 No. 6. O brook 01:44
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. O brook
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  7. 7 No. 7. Drink Deep, My Friend 00:46
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Drink Deep, My Friend
    Duration
    00:46
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  8. 8 No. 8. Dull and Sad Is the Sky 01:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Dull and Sad Is the Sky
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  9. 9 No. 9. The Garden Dons a Coat of Many Hues 01:31
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. The Garden Dons a Coat of Many Hues
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  10. 10 No. 10. Men and children of this world 01:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Men and children of this world
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  11. 11 No. 11. The word is like a woman of folly 00:50
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. The word is like a woman of folly
    Duration
    00:50
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  12. 12 No. 12. Only in God I Trust 02:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. Only in God I Trust
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  13. 13 No. 13. Where are the graves 00:50
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13. Where are the graves
    Duration
    00:50
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  14. 14 No. 14. Let man remember all dis days 01:27
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14. Let man remember all dis days
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  15. 15 No. 15. I have seen upon the earth 01:45
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15. I have seen upon the earth
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  16. 16 No. 16. Come now, to the court of death 01:11
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16. Come now, to the court of death
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  17. 17 No. 17. Peace upon them 01:50
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17. Peace upon them
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  18. 18 No. 18. I behold ancient graves 00:59
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18. I behold ancient graves
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  19. 19 No. 19. Wouldst thou look upon me in my grave 02:23
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 19. Wouldst thou look upon me in my grave
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  20. 20 Ballata dell'esilio 04:42
    Track
    20
    Title
    Ballata dell'esilio
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  21. 21 Vol. 6, No. 2. Arise, "Sea Murmurs" 01:27
    Track
    21
    Title
    Vol. 6, No. 2. Arise, "Sea Murmurs"
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  22. 22 Vol. 4, No. 2. Seals of Love 00:54
    Track
    22
    Title
    Vol. 4, No. 2. Seals of Love
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  23. 23 Romance del conde Arnaldos 02:54
    Track
    23
    Title
    Romance del conde Arnaldos
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini
  24. 24 La ermita de san Simon 02:15
    Track
    24
    Title
    La ermita de san Simon
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
    Performer
    Joanna Klisowska, Giulio Tampalini