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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Christianv12 on Friday 02 January 2015, 18:40

Title: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Christianv12 on Friday 02 January 2015, 18:40
link (http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573135)



Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 02 January 2015, 19:11
I'm pretty sure that these VCs will prove to lie outside UC's remit. No.2 certainly is, but I suppose we must wait and see what No.1 is like. Just a quick reminder about our guidelines here:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,3681.0.html (http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,3681.0.html)
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Christianv12 on Friday 02 January 2015, 21:01
Oh sorry. I was pretty sure that No. 2 is a romantic VC.
But in my opinion the second movement of Bach's double violin concerto in d or the 2nd of the E major concert are also romantic.
You can close the post, or move ít...
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 02 January 2015, 21:19
Well, the movements you mention from the Bach concertos are examples of highly expressive music from the late baroque period. The fact that they are highly expressive doesn't make them romantic in the technical sense used in UC's definition.

As I said, we'll see whether Castelnuovo's 1st VC is appropriate here when the Naxos recording is released...
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: minacciosa on Saturday 03 January 2015, 01:05
If these concertos lie outside the forum's remit, I submit the forum needs to adjust its mission statement. It's just getting way, way too narrow. Nothing CT wrote until his death in the 60's is anything less than romantic.
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 03 January 2015, 09:05
QuoteI submit the forum needs to adjust its mission statement. It's just getting way, way too narrow

Hardly. We range from the proto-romanticism of Reicha and Dussek to the late, late romanticism of Marx, Korngold and Schmidt-Kowalski. However, you have prompted me to listen to C-T's VC2 again, so I'll dig out Perlman and see what I think...
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Saturday 03 January 2015, 12:29
I must say I am a little surprised that anyone should think CT's VC No. 2 was not Romantic.
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 03 January 2015, 21:12
Is it romantic in the same sense as Walton's VC? Anyway, I promise to give it a proper listen - but it's been my wife's surprise 60th birthday celebration today, so I plead distraction...
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 03 January 2015, 22:10
OK, I give in. I must have been thinking of the Ben-Haim coupling on the Perlman CD. Many apologies. C-T's VC2 is now duly designated suitable for discussion here...
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: minacciosa on Sunday 04 January 2015, 01:59
Ben Haim fits here as well.
Title: Re: Castelnuovo-Tedesco VCs 1 & 2 from Naxos
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 04 January 2015, 09:06
Hmmm...
But not in this thread!