Pietro Locatto, Ronja Weyhenmeyer, Orchestra Sinfonica d'Este, Nadir Garofalo - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Songs from Exile (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 99: I. Allegretto
02. Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 99: II. Andantino alla romanza
03. Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 99: III. Ritmico e cavalleresco
04. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 1, When the Morning of Life Had Passed
05. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 2, The Dove That Nests in the Tree-Top
06. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 3, Wrung with Anguish
07. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 4, Sorrow Shatters My Heart
08. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 5, Fate Has Blocked the Way
09. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 6, O Brook
10. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 7, Drink Deep, My Friend
11. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 8, Dull and Sad Is the Sky
12. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 9, The Garden Dons a Coat of Many Hues
13. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 10, Men Are Children of This World
14. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 11, The World Is like a Woman of Folly
15. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 12, Only in God I Trust
16. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 13, Where Are the Graves
17. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 14, Let Man Remember All His Days
18. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 15, I Have Seen upon the Earth
19. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 16, Come Now, to the Court of Death
20. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 17, Peace upon Then
21. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 18, I Behold Ancient Graves
22. The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207: No. 19, Wouldst Thou Look upon Me in My Grave?

This musical proposition combines two compositions created about 30 years apart, in two different countries and moments of life, but that emerge from the same feelings well portrayed in the poetic and autobiographic citations above. Formally, they are very different music pieces, but they both describe the emotional introspection of a man that narrates through music his own condition as an exile. The Concerto per chitarra e orchestra, Op. 99 is brought to life at the end of 1938: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is in Florence and the latest Christmas vacation in Italy is filled with concern for him, the racial laws that came into effect make his and his family’s life intolerable. Almost thirty years later, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, two years before his death, comes back to this theme so dear to him and relives it again intensely, with decidedly more bitter and disenchanted undertones, through an alterego that experienced, 900 years before him, a similar fate (as to almost underline the historical cycles of humanity and its mistakes). Moses Ibn Ezra (1055/60-1138?) was a Spanish poet, of Jewish religion, who was forced to flee from his Granada possibly following family conflicts, but maybe after the Almoravidi Arabs conquered the city and enforced a cultural regime less tolerant towards the jewish minorities compared to the previous Arab domains. The Diwan (or Divan) is a collection of short poems, often sang, typical of the jewish culture, but also of the Arab one and, in particular, the one from el Andalus, the Spain under Arab rule.

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