Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was one of the most successful and remarkable composers of the first half of the 20th century in Italy. His style is influenced by Neo-Classicism, vivid, brilliant, with the occasional odd dissonance, strongly rhythmical and full of catchy melodies. He fled Anti-semitism before WWO2, and settled in Hollywood where he successfully composed film music for more than 200 films.
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Artists: Ensemble Italiano, Mauro Tortorelli (violin), Massimo Macrì (cello), Pierluigi Bernard (clarinet), Angela Meluso (piano)
Chamber music of Mediterranean lyricism and Latin harmonies, including a world-premiere recording.
Not least thanks to a growing catalogue of albums on Brilliant Classics, the multi-faceted work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1970) is experiencing a renaissance. The guitar music he wrote for Segovia has until recently overshadowed the vocal and chamber pieces which speak with the composer’s own voice, that of an Italian lyricist at heart whose intimate acquaintance with world literature and the whole history of music - he was fluent in at least six languages - lend cosmopolitan charm and a lightness of touch to a style encapsulated by ‘20th-century Impressionism’.
Both the Cello Sonata Op.50 (1928) and the Second Piano Trio (1932) date from Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s early maturity in Italy, when he was known as a musical man of parts, equally adept as a performer, a composer and a writer on music. The two-movement form of the Cello Sonata is unusual but successful, capitalising on the solo instrument’s propensity for long cantabile lines with a spaciously unfolding opening arioso, followed in Beethovenian fashion with an ‘arietta con variazioni’ that does indeed evoke a mood of 18th-century elegance. The G minor Piano Trio, as befits its key signature, is a much more turbulent work, even in its central Romance with variations.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed his Clarinet Sonata towards the end of the Second World War, having emigrated to the US in 1938, in flight from Mussolini’s persecution of the Jews. He appears not to have had a particular performer in mind, though the clarinet was enjoying new-found status as a solo instrument due to Benny Goodman’s commissioning of pieces from the likes of Copland and Milhaud, and his colleague on the composing staff at MGM Studios, Nathaniel Shillkret, was also a fine clarinettist. The Sonata’s Classical four-movement structure is infused with Romantic melody, shimmering piano textures and jazz-inflected harmonies.
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Tracklist:
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco:
Pastorale and Rondo, Op. 185:
00:00:00 I. Molto vivace e ritmico
Trio in G Minor No. 2, Op. 70:
00:14:26 I. Schietto e deciso
00:21:47 II. Romanza con variazioni
00:30:28 III. Rondò vivo e ben ritmato
Sonata, Op. 128:
00:37:13 I. Andante con moto
00:45:50 II. Scherzo
00:49:13 III. Lullaby
00:55:17 IV Rondò alla Napolitana
Sonata, Op. 50:
00:59:24 I. Arioso e sereno
01:07:39 II. Arietta con variazioni
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8 авг 2024
