Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra in D No1 op.99 (1939) Williams & Ormandy

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra in D No1 op.99 (1939) Guitar: John Williams Member of the Philadelphia orchestra Conductor: Eugene Ormandy (Sony 1966) Movements 1. Allegretto 00:00 2. Andantino alla Romanza 06:26 3. Ritmico e cavallaresco 13:27 1st Mov: Allegretto 00:00 Allegretto - Intro Orchestra (M1) 00:30 Con bravura - solo guitar (M27) 00:42 Tremolo (M39) 00:51 Intro Solo Guitar (M46) 01:38 Cadenza 1 (M91) 01:55 Orchestra (M108) 02:07 Solo violin (M122) 02:32 Liberamente (M142) 02:40 Horns (M147) 02:49 Chinese music (M153) 03:19 Ostinato (M181) 03:51 Tremolo (M211) 04:07 Quasi recitativo (M225) 04:12 Solo cello (M230) 04:23 Tempo 1 (M235) 05:24 Cadenza 2 (un poco languido) (M287) 05:38 Deciso (M299) 06:00 Vivo (M311) 06:06 Sostenuto (Rasgueado) (M318) 06:12 Coda (M325) 2nd Mov: Andantino alla Romanza 06:26 Andantino alla Romanza (solo guitar) 07:18 Orchestra & solo flute 08:43 Appena piu mosso e scorrevole 08:50 Guitar - accords (dolce, ma sonore) 09:20 Orchestra 09:47 Cadenza (appassionato) 10:53 Calmo, ma scorrevole 11:11 Calmo, dolcissimo (Pastorale character) 12:12 Dolce e triste 12:37 Calmo 13:02 Largo - perdendosi 3rd Mov: Ritmico e cavallaresco 13:27 Ritmico e cavallaresco (orchestra) 13:46 Solo con bravura (brillante) 14:01 Fieramente 14:26 Oboe 14:59 Solo guitar 16:10 Quasi Andante (sempre lo stesso tempo, ma con larghezza di espressione) 17:01 Cadenza (deciso, piu mosso) 17:32 Cadenza (mosso) 18:09 Cadenza (vivo) 18:30 Tempo 1 (orchestra & guitar rasgueado) 18:55 Giocoso (Clarinet & oboe) 19:07 Lo stesso tempo (orchestra & guitar rasgueado) 19:20 Brillante 19:25 Un poco sost (quasi fanfara) ma festoso ********************************** The Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra No1 (op. 99) was composed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco between December 1938 and January 1939 . It is one of the most famous and performed concerts in the repertoire of this instrument, together with Joaquín Rodrigo 's guitar concerts . It is structured in 3 movements , the key is D major. The idea of ​​tackling the composition of the concert came from a request from the guitarist Andrés Segovia , who in those years - and already starting from the 1920s - was engaged in the work of enhancing and re-evaluating the guitar in the field of classical music; a fundamental aspect of this project was to greatly enrich the musical repertoire of the instrument with original compositions of great depth, and the Florentine Castelnuovo-Tedesco was one of the major contributors in this sense. This was the first time in which he found himself facing the problem of placing an orchestra alongside a guitar - an instrument with a much more modest sound range, for example, than a piano or aviolin . The difficulty was overcome brilliantly, obtaining a refined dialogue between guitar and orchestration that never dominates the soloist ; later he also wrote a Concerto for guitar n.2 (op. 160) and a Concerto for two guitars (op. 201). The first performance of the concert took place on October 28, 1939 at the Auditorio de SODRE in Montevideo , with Andrés Segovia on guitar and conducted by Lamberto Baldi . The enthusiasm was very great, and the execution is still testified by a rare recording of the time. Subsequently it was Segovia to publish the first official recording of the opera, with the New London Orchestra conducted by Alec Sherman ; dated 1949 , it is probably the first recording of a guitar concert, but the quality and the care in the acquisition of the sound appear surprising. ************************** Concerto for guitar and orchestra No.1 Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Key: King D major Work number op. 99 Epoch of composition 1938-39 First run: Montevideo, October 28, 1939 Publication Schott, London 1954 Dedication: to Andrés Segovia Average duration 20 minutes Orchestration: Lead: Guitar 2 first violins, 2 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 1 double bass, 2 clarinets, flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, timpani.