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CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2 (Brasil Guitar Duo) - Fuga elegiaca / Les guitares bien temperees: Nos. 13-24

Composer(s):Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Artist(s) Brasil Guitar Duo, Ensemble
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber MusicInstrumental
Catalogue 8.570779
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 9.99
 

 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 


The Brasil Guitar Duo’s Naxos recording of the first twelve Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Guitars (8.570778) gained 5 stars and high praise from Audiophile Audition: ‘Sonics are first rate, and the interplay of the two guitars is a delight’. A landmark in the guitar’s history and the most ambitious undertaking for two guitars ever conceived, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s tribute to J.S. Bach is equally a demonstration of his own melodic inventiveness, wit, vivacity, introspection and lyricism. The Elegiac Fugue, composed shortly before his death, is a fitting musical epitaph.


   




Review By ,www.agas-schmitz.com,January 2010

Dass agas das Debüt des großartigen Brasil Guitar Duo verschlafen hat, mutet nach dem Hören des Nachfolgealbums noch viel unverzeihlicher an als vorher. Die Assads sagten, João Luiz und Douglas Lora wären im Zusammenspiel so organisch wie Brüder, dabei sind sie nur Freunde seit ihrer Schulzeit in São Paulo, die seit jetzt über zehn Jahre miteinander Weltklasse-Duo spielen. Man kann sich vorstellen, wie das Debüt mit Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos Sonatina canonica und den Präludien und Fugen 1 bis 12 aus des Italieners “Guitares Bien Tempérées” [Naxos 8.570778] Fachkritik und normalsterbliche Gitarrenliebhaber und Duo-Fans aus dem Häuschen getrieben hat: Die beiden fesseln von A bis Z, und

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Review By Arther Smith,MusicWeb International,November 2009

This CD is the second by Naxos featuring the music for two guitars by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian who eventually settled in California as a result of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish edicts [Vol 1 is available on Naxos 8.570778]. His interest in writing for the guitar stemmed from an introduction to Andrés Segovia at the Venice International Festival in 1932. As a result he composed over one hundred guitar pieces. Some of the finest are for guitar duet where he was inspired by the French duo Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya.

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Review By Bob Briggs,MusicWeb International,October 2009

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 1 (Brasil Guitar Duo) – Sonatina canonica / Les guitares bien temperees: Nos. 1–12 8.570778

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2 (Brasil Guitar Duo) – Fuga elegiaca / Les guitares bien temperees: Nos. 13–24 8.570779

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Review By Nick Barnard,MusicWeb International,September 2009

It is always something of a surprise to remember that Castelnuovo-Tedesco is a 19th century-born Italian composer. It was a meeting with Andrés Segovia in 1932 that ultimately led him to write over one hundred works for guitar. Of those, the liner-notes tell us that the 1962 cycle The Well-Tempered Guitars, 24 Preludes and Fugues for two guitars Op. 199 represents not only one of the composer’s finest works for the medium but also one of the greatest of all pieces written for guitar duo.

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Review By David Denton, Naxos,June 2009

Last November I was giving a warm welcome to a superbly played first volume in a series that will bring us into contact with hugely enjoyable and seldom heard music.  Yet it was only by a chance meeting with the legendary guitarist, Andres Segovia, that the Italian composer, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, was awakened to the range of music the guitar could generate. He was then to write over a hundred guitar scores, written at a time when he was living in the United States, the home imposed upon him by the Second World War, and where he had also become much involved in music for the silver screen. Both works on the disc are from the 1960’s, the major item being the completion of Les Guitares Bien Temperées (The Well-Tempered Guitars), the first twelve being on the earlier disc. It was his affectionate response to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the last twelve forming a substantial score lasting almost fifty minutes. Though in outline it was a score that looked back, the music is attractively modern and at times distinctively jazzy, the thirteenth Prelude seeming to have strayed into Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Often extremely difficult, the speed and complexity of the Fifteenth throws down a challenge to any duo. In mood they are a well contrasted series of pieces that make for pleasing hearing. The disc, which is completed with the Fuga elegiaca written in response to the tragically early death of Ida Presti, part of the famed Presti and Lagoya duo,is performed by Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora who form The Brasil Guitar Duo. Their unanimity and individual excellence brings razor-sharp articulation in an outstanding release. Superb sound quality.

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