Andrea De Vitis - Greeting Cards 21 Pieces for Guitar - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Between 1953 and 1967, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a series of Greeting Cards. These 52 musical folios, 21 of which were written for the guitar - an instrument that had inspired him since he first heard Segovia perform - are pen portraits of admired colleagues. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's imagination and technical mastery are reinforced by the use of rhythms associated with the dedicatees' nationality or through evocations inspired by their names. The cycle offers a surprising, generous and rewarding body of musical cryptology that belies it's small scale form. Album Tracks 1. 52 Greeting Cards, Op. 170 (1954-67) the 21 Pieces for Guitar 2. No. 5. Tonadilla on the Name of Andrés Segovia (1954) 3. No. 6. Rondel on the Name of Siegfried Behrend (1954) 4. No. 7. Preludio in Forma Di Habanera Sul Nome Di Bruno Tonazzi (1954) 5. No. 10. Tanka (Japanese Song) on the Name of Isao Takahashi (1955) 6. No. 14. Ninna Nanna, a Lullaby for Eugene (1957) 7. No. 15. Song of the Azores on the Name of Enos (Joseph Enos) (1958) 8. No. 33. Canzone Siciliana Sul Nome Gangi (Mario Gangi) (1962) 9. No. 34. Ballatella on the Name of Christopher Parkening (1963) 10. No. 36. Sarabande on the Name of Rey de la Torre (1964) 11. No. 37. Romanza Sul Nome Di Oscar Ghiglia (1964) 12. No. 38. Homage to Purcell, Fantasia on the Names of Ronald (1932[-2011]) and Henry (1659-1695) Purcell (1966) 13. No. 39. Canción Cubana on the Name of Héctor García (1965) 14. No. 40. Canción Venezolana Sul Nome Di Alirio Díaz (1966) 15. No. 41. Canción Argentina Sul Nome Di Ernesto Bitetti (1966) 16. No. 42. Estudio Sul Nome Di Manuel López Ramos (1966) 17. No. 43. Aria Da Chiesa Sul Nome Di Ruggero Chiesa (1967) 18. No. 44. Brasileira Sul Nome Di Laurindo Almeida (1967) 19. No. 46. Japanese Print on the Name of Jiro Matsuda (1967) 20. No. 47. Volo D'ange