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Mailinglist for rare pdf-violinconcerto's. CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO1 + 2

February 25, 2006 at 11:53 AM

PART 5 Why are these rare violinconcerto's never been played or seldom (and never) recorded?
Hello,
This week the Italian born composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Heifetz and Perlman have recorded his 2th violinconcerto opus 66 “The Prophets”. His rare violinconcerto is a favourite of Dutch violinists Carla Leurs and Tjeerd Top. The last one called it: “Quality in an unknown area.” They both like it to play with their professional orchestra or as soloist one day in their life, if that will ever happen.
I could not find soundfragments of it on www.jpc.de or www.amazon.com , but they have it on amazon.com without soundfragments:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000006LT7/qid=1140353362/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-7229480-0994220?s=classical&v=glance&n=5174
The first violinconcerto of Castelnuovo-Tedesco is UNRECORDED, as far as I know. The sheetmusic of both violinconcerto’s I found in the Conservatory of The Hague, Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Best regards Bram Heemskerk www.violinist.com/blog/jenohubay
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 3 Avril 1895, Florence, Italie 16 Mars 1968, Los Angeles, USA

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Thank you for sharing this with us. I know Castelnuevo-Tedesco from my classical guitar days. I used to really love the guitar repertoire. John Williams, the famous classical guitarist from Australia recorded Castelnuevo's guitar concerto which I like. Christopher Parkening, the guitar virtuoso, once premiered one of his guitar pieces and introduced Castelnevo's wife to the audience at Alice Tully Hall in NYC.