Pietro Locatto - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Songs from Exile (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

This musical proposition combines two compositions created about 30 years apart, in two different countries and moments of life, but that emerge from the same feelings well portrayed in the poetic and autobiographic citations above. Formally, they are very different music pieces, but they both describe the emotional introspection of a man that narrates through music his own condition as an exile. The Concerto per chitarra e orchestra, Op. 99 is brought to life at the end of 1938: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is in Florence and the latest Christmas vacation in Italy is filled with concern for him, the racial laws that came into effect make his and his family’s life intolerable. Almost thirty years later, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, two years before his death, comes back to this theme so dear to him and relives it again intensely, with decidedly more bitter and disenchanted undertones, through an alterego that experienced, 900 years before him, a similar fate (as to almost underline the historical cycles of humanity and its mistakes). Moses Ibn Ezra (1055/60-1138?) was a Spanish poet, of Jewish religion, who was forced to flee from his Granada possibly following family conflicts, but maybe after the Almoravidi Arabs conquered the city and enforced a cultural regime less tolerant towards the jewish minorities compared to the previous Arab domains. The Diwan (or Divan) is a collection of short poems, often sang, typical of the jewish culture, but also of the Arab one and, in particular, the one from el Andalus, the Spain under Arab rule.

Tracklist:
01 - Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 99_ I. Allegretto
02 - Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 99_ II. Andantino alla romanza
03 - Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 99_ III. Ritmico e cavalleresco
04 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 1, When the Morning of Life Had Passed
05 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 2, The Dove That Nests in the Tree-Top
06 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 3, Wrung with Anguish
07 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 4, Sorrow Shatters My Heart
08 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 5, Fate Has Blocked the Way
09 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 6, O Brook
10 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 7, Drink Deep, My Friend
11 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 8, Dull and Sad Is the Sky
12 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 9, The Garden Dons a Coat of Many Hues
13 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 10, Men Are Children of This World
14 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 11, The World Is like a Woman of Folly
15 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 12, Only in God I Trust
16 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 13, Where Are the Graves
17 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 14, Let Man Remember All His Days
18 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 15, I Have Seen upon the Earth
19 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 16, Come Now, to the Court of Death
20 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 17, Peace upon Then
21 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 18, I Behold Ancient Graves
22 - The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra, Op. 207_ No. 19, Wouldst Thou Look upon Me in My Grave_


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