Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto Italiano & Violin Concerto No. 2

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The Concerto italiano is not the breezy, pseudo-Victorian piece that its title might suggest; indeed, it is rather a melancholic work...[I profeti is] a rather more lively and colourful work...Its... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2015 More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2015
Catalogue No: 8573135
Label: Naxos
Length: 62 minutes

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 31 "Italiano"

Work length31:38

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Tianwa Yang
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Pieter-Jelle de Boer

I. Allegro moderato e maestoso

Track length15:36

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II. Arioso

Track length8:31

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III. Vivo e impetuoso

Track length7:31

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 66 "The Prophets"

Work length31:19

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$9.05

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Tianwa Yang
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Pieter-Jelle de Boer

I. Isaiah. Introduzione - Allegro appassionato

Track length13:25

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II. Jeremiah. Espressivo e dolente

Track length9:56

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III. Elijah. Fiero e impetuoso

Track length7:58

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco considered the 1924 Concerto Italiano to be his first truly symphonic venture. This tuneful, fresh and transparently scored concerto here receives its world première recording. It was admired by the great violinist Jascha Heifetz, for whom the composer wrote his Concerto No. 2 ‘I Profeti’ (The Prophets), an impassioned work ‘of biblical character and inspiration’ with an almost cinematic sweep. The recipient of the coveted Echo Klassik award for her album of Mendelssohn’s two Violin Concertos [8572662], Tianwa Yang is widely recognised as one of the outstanding rising stars on the world classical music scene.

Jose Miguel Cueto has recorded the Concerto No.2, coupled with violin works by Guastavino and Respighi on Marquis 81407, released in 2009. The most famous recording – of very few ever made – is by Jascha Heifetz on RCA, reissued on a miscellaneous disc containing works by Karen Khachaturian, Howard Ferguson, and Jean Françaix. It can also be found in the vast Heifetz Edition (RCA box set), and coupled with Walton’s Concerto on Naxos Historical 8111367. In this new recording it’s played by much-admired young violinist Tianwa Yang whose record of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on Naxos was admired and whose series of four single discs of Sarasate’s works for violin and orchestra on Naxos has earned great international acclaim.

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April 2015

The Concerto italiano is not the breezy, pseudo-Victorian piece that its title might suggest; indeed, it is rather a melancholic work...[I profeti is] a rather more lively and colourful work...Its glittering, singing lines certainly bring a resonant response both from soloist Tianwa Yang and the SWR Symphony Orchestra.

12th February 2015

Tianwa Yang confirms her growing reputation with playing of great prowess, though her performance of I Profeti is altogether more ebullient than Heifetz’s own introverted account. There are stylish contributions, too, from the Baden-Baden and Freiburg Radio Orchestra under Pieter-Jelle de Boer.

31st January 2015

This world premiere recording of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s early Concerto Italiano...reveals the early 20th-century Italian to be a lush, lyrical and fluent composer. No wonder he later flourished in Hollywood.

Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto Italiano & Violin Concerto No. 2

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