Andrea De Vitis - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Greeting Cards for Guitar (2023)

Tracklist

01. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 5, Tonadilla on the Name of Andrés Segovia
02. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 6, Rondel on the Name of Siegfried Behrend
03. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 7, Preludio in forma di habanera sul nome di Bruno Tonazzi
04. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 10, Tanka (Japanese Song) on the Name of Isao Takahashi
05. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 14, Ninna Nanna, A Lullaby for Eugene
06. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 15, Song of the Azores on the Name of Enos (Joseph Enos)
07. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 33, Canzone siciliana sul nome Gangi (Mario Gangi)
08. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 34, Ballatella on the Name of Christopher Parkening
09. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 36, Sarabande on the Name of Rey de la Torre
10. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 37, Romanza sul nome di Oscar Ghiglia
11. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 38, Homage to Purcell, Fantasia on the Names of Ronald and Henry Purcell
12. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 39, Canción cubana on the Name of Héctor García
13. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 40, Canción venezuelana sul nome di Alirio Díaz
14. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 41, Canción argentina sul nome di Ernesto Bitetti
15. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 42, Estudio sul nome di Manuel López Ramos
16. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 43, Aria da chiesa sul nome di Ruggero Chiesa
17. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 44, Brasileira sul nome di Laurindo Almeida
18. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 46, Japanese Print on the Name of Jiro Matsuda
19. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 47, Volo d'angeli sul nome di Angelo Gilardino
20. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 48, Canzone calabrese on the Name of Ernest Calabria
21. Greeting Cards, Op. 170: No. 50, Tarantella campana on the Name of Eugene Di Novi

Between 1953 and 1967, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a series of Greeting Cards. These 52 musical folios, 21 of which were written for the guitar – an instrument that had inspired him since he first heard Segovia perform – are pen portraits of admired colleagues. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s imagination and technical mastery are reinforced by the use of rhythms associated with the dedicatees’ nationality or through evocations inspired by their names. The cycle offers a surprising, generous and rewarding body of musical cryptology that belies its small-scale form.

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