Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Performer: Andrea de Vitis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574246
Release: 2023
Size: 222 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Greeting Cards, Op. 170
01. No. 5, Tonadilla on the Name of Andrés Segovia
02. No. 6, Rondel on the Name of Siegfried Behrend
03. No. 7, Preludio in forma di habanera sul nome di Bruno Tonazzi
04. No. 10, Tanka (Japanese Song) on the Name of Isao Takahashi
05. No. 14, Ninna Nanna, a Lullaby for Eugene
06. No. 15, Song of the Azores on the Name of Enos (Joseph Enos)
07. No. 33, Canzone siciliana sul nome Gangi (Mario Gangi)
08. No. 34, Ballatella on the Name of Christopher Parkening
09. No. 36, Sarabande on the Name of Rey de la Torre
10. No. 37, Romanza sul nome di Oscar Ghiglia
11. No. 38, Homage to Purcell, Fantasia on the Names of Ronald and Henry Purcell
12. No. 39, Canción cubana on the Name of Héctor García
13. No. 40, Canción venezuelana sul nome di Alirio Díaz
14. No. 41, Canción argentina sul nome di Ernesto Bitetti
15. No. 42, Estudio sul nome di Manuel López Ramos
16. No. 43, Aria da chiesa sul nome di Ruggero Chiesa
17. No. 44, Brasileira sul nome di Laurindo Almeida
18. No. 46, Japanese Print on the Name of Jiro Matsuda
19. No. 47, Volo d’angeli sul nome di Angelo Gilardino
20. No. 48, Canzone calabrese on the Name of Ernest Calabria
21. 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.