Between 1953 and 1967, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote 53 works for various instrumental ensembles that were collected together as Opus 170 and given the title Greeting Cards. Castelnuovo-Tedesco described them as ‘alphabetic pieces’: he derived their musical themes derived from ascending and descending chromatic scales, in which each note is combined with a letter of the alphabet.
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Artists: @CristianoPorqueddu
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On this new album, Cristiano Porqueddu plays the 21 Greeting Cards composed for the guitar. They are small, unexpected homages that Castelnuovo-Tedesco liked to give his friends, to musicians who played his works, to his pupils and occasionally also to people who were not musicians. He later declared them to be minor works, but each of them is filled with affection, regardless of the professional status of the subject. In this imaginary gallery there are thus portrayals of legendary musicians such as Jascha Heifetz and Andrés Segovia alongside several of his students, including André Previn, Christopher Parkening and Eugene Robin Escovado.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco made each Greeting Card a vivid portrait of the dedicatee, usually by combining rhythms and atmospheres that reflected nationality, as with the Tonadilla sul nome di Andrés Segovia or the Canción venezolana sul nome di Alirio Díaz. However, there are also more abstract references, such as the Rondel on the name of Siegfried Behrend (No.6) or evocations generated by the name itself: the Fantasia sul nome di Henry e Ronald Purcell (No.38), for instance, or the Volo d’Angeli sul nome di Angelo Gilardino (No.47). What they all have in common is a depth of feeling that transcends their superficial status as ‘occasional’ pieces. The Sardinian guitarist Cristiano Porqueddu has become known as a major interpreter of modern guitar music, not least thanks to his extensive catalogue of recordings on Brilliant Classics. .
Tracklist:
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Greeting Cards, Op. 170:
00:00:00 I. Tonadilla on the Name of Andrés Segovia
00:06:07 II. Rondel on the Name of Siegfried Behrend
00:11:49 III. Preludio in forma di habanera on the Name of Bruno Tonazzi
00:15:28 IV. Tanka on the Name of Isao Takahashi
00:20:14 V. A Lullaby for Eugene to Eugene Robin Escovado
00:26:11 VI. Song of the Azores on the Name of Enos
00:31:38 VII. Canzone Siciliana sul nome di Mario Gangi
00:36:01 VIII. Ballatella on the Name of Christopher Parkening
00:39:12 IX. Sarabande on the Name of Rey de la Torre
00:42:45 X. Romanza sul nome di Oscar Ghiglia
00:46:43 XI. Homage to Purcell
00:51:44 XII. Canción Cubana on the Name of Hector Garcia
00:56:50 XIII. Canción Venezolana sul nome di Alirio Díaz
01:00:06 XIV. Canción Argentina sul nome di Ernesto Bitetti
01:03:06 XV. Estudio sul nome di Manuel López Ramos
01:05:27 XVI. Aria da Chiesa sul nome di Ruggero Chiesa
01:10:09 XVII. Brasileira sul nome di Laurindo Almeida
01:12:44 XVIII. Japanese Print on the Name of Jiro Matsuda
01:16:55 XIX. Volo d'angeli sul nome di Angelo Gilardino
01:21:10 XX. Canzone Calabrese on the Name of Ernest Calabria
01:24:27 XXI. Tarantella campana on the Name of Eugene Di Novi
01:27:08 Capriccio sopra la lonananza
Sonata mediterranea:
01:30:09 I. Cipressi
01:36:45 II. Ninna nanna
01:41:15 III. Pini sul mare
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12 июл 2024
