CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Evangélion
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Composer or Director: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Naxos
Magazine Review Date: 05/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 72
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 8 573316
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Evangélion |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer
Alessandro Marangoni, Piano Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer |
Author: Bryce Morrison
Though he was Jewish, much of his music is centred on New Testament texts and the present 28-piece cycle takes us from ‘The Infancy’ to ‘The Passion’. There is a pronounced Spanish flavour (possibly deriving from the composer’s association with Segovia), though to claim that the writing is ‘dramatically virtuosic’ when not ‘profoundly introspective’ is stretching things. Slight when not periodically charming and engaging, there is little to compare with, say, Mompou’s religious distillation (his Música callada) or the opulent religious masterpieces of Liszt and Messiaen. ‘The Three Kings’ plod along in comically unceremonial style (though no comedy is intended); and although ‘The Woman of Samaria’ gives us an attractive forlane, there is too little to delight and surprise those looking for unusual encores. ‘Gethsemane’ is more lengthy than moving and a final burst of hymn-like joy in ‘The Resurrection’ comes too late to redeem music that fails to match or conjure its biblical inspiration. The performance is, however, suitably poised and devotional, and Naxos’s sound is excellent.
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