Andrea de Vitis
Between 1953 and 1967, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a series of Greeting Cards. These 52 musical folios, 21 of which were written for the guitar – an instrument that had inspired him since he first heard Segovia perform – are pen portraits of admired colleagues. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s imagination and technical mastery are reinforced by the use of rhythms associated with the dedicatees’ nationality or through evocations inspired by their names. The cycle offers a surprising, generous and rewarding body of musical cryptology that belies its small-scale form.
Andrea De Vitis plays it with great certainty of technique and his phrasing and judgement of tempo are excellent; he seems perfectly attuned to the sensibility underlying the music.
57 Akadimias Street, Athens
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