Shakespeare Overtures Volume 2
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CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Shakespeare Overtures Volume 2
West Australian Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Penny
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 6 December 2010
This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.
The art of Shakespeare was a recurring fascination for Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In addition to two operas and numerous settings of songs and sonnets, he wrote 11 Shakespeare Overtures which here receive their first ever complete recording.
Deploying all the resources of the symphony orchestra, these are some of the twentieth century's most dramatic and tuneful orchestral works, spectacular evocations of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Volume One is available on Naxos 8572500.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco's settings of Shakespeare songs can be heard on Marco Polo 8223729.
Tracks:
As You Like It Overture, Op. 166
Il mercante di Venezia Overture (The Merchant of Venice), Op. 76
Much Ado about Nothing Overture, Op. 164
King John Overture, Op. 111
Il racconto d'inverno Overture (The Winter's Tale), Op. 80
