
Over the past decade or so, Naxos has been filling significant catalogue gaps on behalf of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, including this first integral release of his
This musically diverse representation of 20th-century piano music by Italian composers is a model of intelligent programming, scrupulous pianism, and committed musicianship. The dark impressionistic
Among the 53 compositions comprising Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Greeting Cards Op. 170, 21 are for solo guitar. Each piece is based on the name of a
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Cello Concerto of 1935, written for Gregor Piatigorsky, is the Korngold Violin Concerto of Cello Concertos. If you like one, then you’ll adore
At least since the days of lutes and viols composers and performers recognized and exploited the favorable combination of plucked and bowed strings. And yet
We get dozens of requests every month to review artist-produced CDs, and probably half of those come from guitarists. It’s simply amazing how many of
The previous Sono Luminus release by the brilliant and (to
This recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s early (1924) Concerto Italiano purports to be a world premiere, and while you can never really tell these days, this is
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco enriched 20th-century guitar music with many significant works,
Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a great deal of enjoyable music, and Naxos