Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - 24 Caprichos de Goya (Zoran Dukić)

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Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

• 24 Caprichos de Goya for Guitar, Op. 195 (2CDs)

Zoran Dukić, guitar

Date: 2009

Label: Naxos

https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.572252-53

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 8 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

The booklet accompanying this release reproduces each of the Goya etchings that inspired the 24 individual pieces within Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s solo-guitar suite, 24 Caprichos de Goya. To my eyes and ears Goya’s stylized grotesquerie and twisted expressive palette has little in common with Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s gentle, conservative, and masterfully idiomatic guitar writing. To be sure, there are inspired moments, such as No. 17’s dissonant rapid repeated notes and drum-roll imitations, or No. 22’s harmonically sophisticated cascading arpeggios, but don’t expect an epic, six-stringed equivalent to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Had the composer bagged his Goya subtext and simply titled this suite “Guitar Moods”, he would have been right on the money. In any event, Zoran Dukic’s sense of color and textural variety, his seamless technique, and his lyrical disposition serve this music beautifully, as does Naxos’ warm, spacious engineering.

-- Jed Distler, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/June09/Castelnuovo_8572252.htm

https://www.allmusic.com/album/mario-castelnuovo-tedesco-24-caprichos-de-goya-mw0001877220

https://www.naxos.com/Review/Detail/?catalogueid=8.572252-53&languageid=EN

https://www.amazon.com/Castelnuovo-Tedesco-24-Caprichos-Goya/dp/B001QUL746

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 in Florence – 16 March 1968 in Beverly Hills, California) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he immigrated to the United States and became a composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. As a teacher, Castelnuovo-Tedesco had a significant influence on other major film composers, such as Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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Zoran Dukić (born 1969 in Zagreb) is a Croatian classical guitarist. He graduated from the Music Academy of Zagreb and completed his studies with Hubert Käppel at the Hochschule für Music in Cologne. Between 1990 and 1997, Dukić won more competitions than any other guitarist. He has performed in the most prestigious concert halls worldwide, such as Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Carnegie Hall in New York, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. He teaches at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_Duki%C4%87

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