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Re: Castelnuovo

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Subject: Re: Castelnuovo

From: "Angelo Gilardino" <angelo16@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:01:51 +0200

> -----Messaggio originale----- > Inviato: domenica 2 luglio 2000 13.54 > A: cguitar-list@eskimo.com > Oggetto: Castelnuovo > Dear Reader, > I was pleased to read that Miles is > enjoying some Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The Sonata is a very nice > work, and the > middle two movements are really delightful. They both use the D > and G bass > tunings, and are both are not too impossible! The third movement > in paticular > is one of my favourites. My old professor, Charles Ramirez, recorded this > work for BBC radio 3 many years ago, and I have yet to hear a better > performance. I have this on tape, recorded from the radio, if Miles is > interested. I am sure it is an excellent performance. After the recording of Andrés Segovia, this masterpiece has not been featured in many records, still we have a spirited performance in the last CD of Julian Bream. Now, a new wave of interpreters is on our horizons. Giulio Tampalini, one of the best Italian young guitarists, has released the first CD of a series of five devoted to the guitar solo works by MCT, and he offers a new interpretation of the Sonata ("Suonare" is the label). It is new both in the approach of the performer and in the text: Tampalini uses in fact my own reading of the piece, where a good deal of details have been restored consistently with the original and, on the whole, according to a more logical analysis of the text. Also Lorenzo Micheli, the winner of the last GFA competition, has recorded his CD-prize for Naxos with a Castelnuovo-Tedesco recital, and he too has featured the Sonata. I am glad about all of this new interest in the works of the Italian master. > The same cannot be said of Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, who > produced some very lovely minatures. Although he may not have the > stature of > Tedesco, I really like his works, and they do fit the instrument > perfectly. I > was a little surprised that Angelo spoke of his pieces with some disdain. > Perhaps he would care to comment further? I seem to remember that > a while ago > he had a similar attitude to Lauro, who also produced some fine pieces. > Although we will all have different likes and dislikes, surely we > must make > the most of all the repertoire that we have? No disdain, just the viewpoint of a composer offered with the purpose of not missing the perspectives: I answered a message where it was said that there was no interest with playing "Platero y yo" by MCT because of the fact the works with the same title by ESDLM were in repertoire, then it did not seem to me out of perspective to point out that there is a certain difference between the two composers. The works of a true composer are basically on another level with respect to the works of a player who decide to compose without having acquired a professional instruction in composition. This of course does not prevent neither a gifted musician to write pleasant, short pieces, nor his peers the guitarists to enjoy them - after all it is this kind of music that makes the majority of the "contemporary" repertoire of guitarists - : nothing to complaing - let alone disdaining - about the favour enjoyed by anyone's music, but it is out of question that we are far from making "the most of all the repertoire that we have": speaking just of Latin American guitar music, could you say me who performs and records the splendid guitar music written by true composers like Gilardo Gilardi (nothing to see with the undersigned, if not because it was me to rescue and publish the "Serie Argentina" written on 1934), Carlos Pedrell, Mozart Camargo-Guarnieri, to mention just one composer for, respectively, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil? It is too evident that the hidden repertoire of the guitar is not that part of it written by guitarists...too often on Sunday (or even Saturday) and played by guitarists all the days of the week. Respectfully. Angelo Gilardino Composer and Editor The Artistic Director of the "Andrés Segovia" Foundation of Spain --- Editor of the series of 20th century guitar music Edizioni Musicali Bèrben --- via Failla, 7 13100 Vercelli Italia tel. & fax 0161-255346 email <angelo16@inwind.it> http://www.seicorde.it/Gilardino

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Re: Castelnuovo