Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Chamber Music (Ensemble Italiano)

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Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

• Pastorale and Rondo, Op. 185
• Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 70
• Clarinet Sonata, Op. 128
• Cello Sonata, Op. 50

Ensemble Italiano

    Pierluigi Bernard, clarinet

    Mauro Tortorelli, violin

    Massimo Macrì, cello

    Angela Meluso, piano

Date: 2020

Label: Brilliant

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 — 15 March 1968) was an Italian composer. A student of Ildebrando Pizzetti, he gained recognition in the 1920s but was forced to emigrate to the U.S. in 1939 due to Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws. Settling in Hollywood, he composed concertos for piano, violin, cello and guitar, and wrote overtures for 12 Shakespeare plays. He also set Shakespeare's poems and sonnets to music and composed two Shakespearean operas. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's chamber and piano works are noted for their symphonic scope, while his vocal music reflects the melodic tradition of the Italian school.

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Ensemble Italiano brings together four internationally acclaimed and experienced musicians: Mauro Tortorelli (violin) and Angela Meluso (piano), who previously made up Gran Duo Italiano; Massimo Macrì (first cello of the RAI National Orchestra in Turin); and Pierluigi Bernard (first clarinet of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra).

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