Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco(1895-1968): a Catalogue of the Orchestral Music

[Alan Howe]

No, you're spot-on too, Peter!

[jerfilm]

Well, after all guys, it IS subtitled "The Prophets" so it must be a sort of programmatic violin concerto.....hmmmmm.......I must have a listen - it's on a R2R tape and I haven't heard it for years.....

iNCIDENTALLY ARE THERE RECORDINGS OF THE OTHER 2 VIOLIN CONCERTOS??

J

[scarpia]

The American Symphony lead by Leon Botstein will be performing Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Violin Concerto No. 2 this coming February at Bard College. If the weather is good I will go.

[eschiss1]

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a radio recording somewhere-or-other of Heifetz, who commissioned the Italiano (no.1 in G minor), performing it... not necessarily commercially released, but maybe in circulation. (Apparently Heifetz did perform it with the NY Philharmonic in 1931.) Anyone know though, or about no.3? Interesting question... I may have heard no.2, not sure- will try to hear it again though..., but not the first and third.

[LateRomantic75]

I'd give anything to hear the first and third VCs and the CC! The VC no. 2 is an outstanding work which comes closer to the Hollywoodian sweep of Rozsa's film scores than Rozsa's own VC! The Shakespeare Overtures recorded by Naxos, are characterful, colorful pieces, if a little lacking in the memorability department.

[FBerwald]

Reg. the "Violin Concerto No. 3, op. 102" .. How sure are we about the existence of this work? I can't seem to find anything about this on the net; moreover the recent Naxos release makes no mention / reference to this work.

[eschiss1]

According to the LoC finding papers of their Castelnuovo-Tedesco collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010012),  the 3rd violin concerto is in sketches only. (Box Folder 97/13: Holograph manuscript sketches; [18] p.)

(Also, according to that, Op.94 for orchestra, "I giganti della montagna", 1938 version - actually, either version, was left out - as was Op.98 Aucassin et Nicolette for voice & orch. (since other works for that combination were included, may as well.))

[Claude Torres]

Movies music (to be completed if necessary)

Above suspicion [film, MGM, 1943] 
Address unknown [film, Columbia,1944] 
America marching on [film, MGM, 1937] 
Bad bascomb [film, MGM, 1946] 
Bataan [film, MGM, 1943] 
Billy the kid [film, MGM, 1941] 
The brave bulls [film, Columbia, 1951] 
The brigand [film, Columbia, 1952] 
The Canterville ghost [film, MGM, 1944] 
The clock [film, MGM, 1945] 
The crime doctor's courage [film, Columbia, 1945] 
Dangerous business [film, Columbia, 1946] 
The day of the fox [film, UPA, 1956] 
Down to earth [film, Columbia, 1947] 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [film, MGM, 1941] 
Dubarry was a lady [film, MGM, 1943] 
Everybody does it [film, Fox, 1949]   
For our vines have tender grapes [film, MGM, 1945] 
Forgotten treasures [film, MGM, 1943] 
Gaslight [film, MGM, 1944] 
The hangman [i.e. Hitler's madman] [film, MGM, 1943] 
The heavenly body [film, MGM, 1944] 
I love a mystery [film, Columbia, 1945] 
Inca gold [film, MGM, 1943] 
Journey for Margaret [film, MGM, 1942] 
MGM film sketches
Keeper of the flame [film, MGM, 1942] 
Kismet [film, MGM, 1944] 
Lassie come home [film, MGM, 1943] 
The loves of Carmen [film, Columbia, 1948] 
The mark of the whistler [film, Columbia, 1944] 
The mask of the avenger [film, Columbia, 1951] 
Mission 36 [i.e. The black parachute] [film, Columbia, 1944] 
Movie sketches [MGM] 
Mrs. Parkington [i.e. The Parkington] [film, MGM, 1944] 
Night editor [film, Columbia, 1946] 
Once upon a Thursday [i.e. The affairs of Martha] [film, MGM, 1942] 
Picture of Dorian Gray [film, MGM, 1945] 
Plan for destruction [film, MGM, 1943]   
Prison ship [film, Columbia, 1945] 
Rage in Heaven [film, MGM, 1941] 
Rationing [film, MGM, 1944] 
Return of the vampire [film, Columbia, 1943] 
Reunion in France [film, MGM, 1942] 
The rogues of Sherwood Forest [film, Columbia, 1950] 
Rumors [i.e. Mr. Blabbermouth] [film, MGM, 1942] 
Russia [i.e. Song of Russia] [film, MGM, 1944] 
Scenic grandeur [film, MGM, 1941] 
Shadowed [film, Columbia, 1946] 
She's a soldier too [film, Columbia, 1944] 
Somewhere I'll find you [film, MGM, 1942] 
Son of Lassie [film, MGM, 1945] 
The stars look down [film, MGM, 1941] 
Step this way [i.e. The big store] [film, MGM, 1941] 
Strictly dishonorable [film, MGM, 1951] 
Tell tale hands [i.e. Main Street after dark] [film, MGM, 1944] 
A thousand shall fall [i.e. The cross of Lorraine] [film, MGM, 1943] 
Time out of mind [film, Universal, 1947] (piano, orchestra)  Co-written by Miklos Rozsa - Includes Symphony finale, an early version of New England Symphony
Tonight we dance [i.e. Dancing in Manhattan] [film, MGM, 1944] 
Tortilla flat [film, MGM, 1942] 
Tulip time in Michigan [i.e. Seven sweethearts] [film, MGM, 1942] 
Two-man submarine [film, Columbia, 1944] 
The vanishing Virginian [film, MGM, 1942] 
Vendetta against a dictator [film, MGM, 1942] 
We were dancing [film, MGM, 1942] 
When ladies meet [film, MGM, 1941] 
Whistling in Brooklyn [film, MGM, 1943] 
White cargo [film, MGM, 1942] 
Who's superstitious? [film, MGM, 1943] 
A woman's face [film, MGM, 1941] 
A Yank at Eton [film, MGM, 1942] 
The yearling [film, MGM, 1946] 

Claude Torres

[Gareth Vaughan]

It would appear there is a holograph MS of the piano/violin score + the violin part. Whether there is enough material in the sketches to enable an interested and competent party to construct (reconstruct) a full orchestral score remains to be investigated.

[Claude Torres]

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Violin concertos 1 & 2
See Naxos 8.573135
Tianwa Yang, violin
SWR Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg
Pieter Jelle de Boer
Recorded at the Rolf Böhme Saal, Konzerthaus, Freiburg, Germany
11-15 nov; 2012
Digital Release : February 3, 2015
Physical Release : February 10, 2015

Concerto No. 1 "Italiano" Op. 31 (1924) - world premiere recording
Concerto No. 2 "I Profeti" Op. 66 (1931)

Claude Torres

[Alan Howe]

Welcome, Claude. Please see this existing thread:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,5462.0.html