CD, Castelnuovo-Tedesco (composer)
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New. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Quintets
Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Quartetto Adorno (chamber ensemble)
A guitar great proves his mettle in the quintet medium… The players here give an ardent performance, highlighting the enigmatic string chorale and open, sometimes bluesy harmonies… rich colouring... —
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Despite the free, characterful, sensitive composition and interpretation by Johansen, the music does sometimes feel like accompaniment rather than individual pieces that stand up in their own... —
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Special offer. Italian Cello Sonatas
Quartetto Guadagnini (performer), Costantino Catena (performer), Amedeo Chicchese (performer), Jacopo Di Tonno (cello), Domenico Codispoti (piano), Barbara Panzarella (piano), Amedeo Cicchese (cello), Roberto Trainini (cello), Massimiliano Ferrati (piano), Luca Signorini (cello), Dario Candela (piano),...
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In each case the Quartetto Adorno make the most of the music’s tuneful glow and wide range of colours and textures, with Benedetta Bucci’s viola of ten relishing the spotlight. —
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... —
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What gives pleasure here are generally those works convincingly performed by the forces their creators originally intended. There are muscular, imaginative and witty solo pieces by Rózsa and... —
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The Pizzetti demands something other than beauty in performance, and Shaham and Erez are uncompromising and abrasive with it. The Castelnuovo-Tedesco sounds gorgeous from start to finish. —
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Margutti & Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Works for Choir and Guitar (Rivers – Romancero Gitano Op. 152)
ITER Research Ensemble, Giovanni Cestino, Nicolò Spera, Anna Martini, Margherita Bellini, Corrado Margutti, Francesco Bombarda, Chiara Broggini, Rebecca Favale, Emanuele Cristini, Alessio Giuricin
