Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Violin & Piano

Featuring

Fulvio Luciani
Massimiliano Motterle
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Jascha Heifetz
Johannes Brahms
Frédéric Chopin

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Composer Biography

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a Jewish composer, was forced to leave Italy due to the Fascist regime's racial laws.

Instruments

Violinist Fulvio Luciani plays a violin built in Cremona by Lorenzo Storioni in the last years of his life (1810-15), which has been restored and maintained by luthier Igor Moroder.

Recording & Production

This album features the first world recordings of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Tre Intermezzi from Brahms' Op.117 and a selection of Preludes from Chopin's Op.28.

Recording & Production

The recording of this album was made possible through a crowd-funding campaign and was hosted at the Conservatorio Guido Cantelli di Novara, Italy.

Historical Context

Before emigrating, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's music was banned in Italy, a ban that also extended to Jewish composers like Mendelssohn, mirroring events in Germany.

Composer Biography

Castelnuovo-Tedesco's works were performed by leading musicians of his time, including conductors Toscanini and Mitropoulos, and instrumentalists Heifetz, Gieseking, Piatigorsky, and Segovia.

Cultural Impact

In his later life in the United States, Castelnuovo-Tedesco worked in the flourishing film industry, initially for MGM, and taught notable pupils such as John Williams, Henry Mancini, and André Previn.