Castelnuovo/ De Vitis - Greeting Cards 21 Pieces for GuitarBetween 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

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and pianist Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir

Blue Whale is considerably more experimental

and locating the self amidst such weighty and intangible concepts

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They are a generation apart

a chronic disease that will

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not so sprawling as the evening-long oratorio on the Beatitudes but still a dramatic canvas full of incident and contemplation well worth exploring by anyone familiar with the Symphony or the secular tone-poems such as Psyché and Le chausseur maudit

and afterlife