Name: Piano Music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
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Piano Music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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Bebbington is now an established exponent of forgotten piano music and this rerelease of his 2003 efforts to draw attention to the works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is a delight, particularly... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2017
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0172
Label: Somm
Length: 66 minutes

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Le danze del Re David

Work length16:11

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 3-4 January 2003
Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, England, UK

I. Vivo e tumultuoso

Track length1:47

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II. Ieratico

Track length2:13

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III. Rapido e selvaggio

Track length1:24

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IV. Lento ed estatico

Track length3:34

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V. Rude e ben ritmato

Track length1:18

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VI. Malinconico e supplichevole

Track length3:18

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VII. Allegro guerriero - Alla chiusa, chiaro e solenne

Track length2:37

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Questo fu il carro della morte

Work length6:02

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Mark Bebbington (piano)

Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Alt Wien

Work length16:26

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 3-4 January 2003
Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, England, UK

I. Alt Wien

Track length4:06

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II. Nachtmusik

Track length6:07

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III. Memento mori

Track length6:13

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: I naviganti

Work length7:41

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Mark Bebbington (piano)

Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piedigrotta

Work length20:27

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Mark Bebbington (piano)
Recorded: 3-4 January 2003
Recording Venue: CBSO Centre, Birmingham, England, UK

I. Tarantella scura

Track length2:31

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II. Notte e Luna

Track length3:34

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III. Calasciunate

Track length3:21

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IV. Voce luntana

Track length6:42

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V. Lariulà!

Track length4:19

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A recording of piano music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: what an original and fascinating way for a young pianist to embark on a career which in a short time grew to span Europe, the US, North Africa and the Far East! Mark Bebbington recorded this stunning début disc for SOMM in 2003, now newly available as a re-issue both on CD and for streaming and digital download. Even before embarking on a series of recordings for SOMM now running to over 30 CDs, Mark had been looking for fresh and unusual repertoire, both for recording and concert performance. Guided by his cherished teacher and mentor Aldo Ciccolini, he was already becoming known as a passionate advocate of unjustly neglected composers. A fifteen-concert European recital series several years ago featured premières by Sir Malcolm Arnold and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Judith Bingham, Toru Takemitsu and Julian Anderson. His Erik Satie Café Concert, featuring the UK première of ‘Sports et Divertissements’ in its original version for narrator and piano toured festivals in this country before playing two sold-out performances at 'le chat blanc' cabaret club in Paris. In typical late-romantic style, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s music can be tender, rhapsodic and passionate and presents formidable challenges for the pianist as it was often conceived in orchestral terms. It also reveals his fondness for the music of Rachmaninov (I Naviganti), Granados and Albeniz (Piedigrotta) and Ravel (Alt Wien). Originally born in Florence, Castelnuovo-Tedesco became a sought-after teacher of film music at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music including among his pupils Henry Mancini, Andre Previn, Nelson Riddle and John Williams. Like other established Jewish composers such as Schoenberg and Korngold, Castelnuovo-Tedesco was forced to flee Europe for Hollywood in order to escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism. His music breathes the warmth of the Mediterranean as in his 1924 Neapolitan Rhapsody Piedigrotta or the more exotic, rich, folk-influenced sound of the music of Israel with its allusive references to the shofar horn (The Dances of King David subtitled 'Hebrew rhapsody on traditional themes'). In these as in much of his other music Castelnuovo-Tedesco always proudly proclaims his dual Southern European and Jewish heritage.

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July 2018

Bebbington is now an established exponent of forgotten piano music and this rerelease of his 2003 efforts to draw attention to the works of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is a delight, particularly the quasi-rhapsodic Piedigrotta.

August 2017

Very colourful and evocative piano music that is heartily recommended.

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