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Month: October 2025

30 Oct
Graphic with the titles of the 11 Shakespeare overtures by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Complete Shakespeare Overtures Now Available

Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco / News /

Shakespeare’s works provided a lifelong creative thread for Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. His devotion to the Bard first revealed itself in the 1920s with The Passionate Pilgrim: 33 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 24, for voice and piano, and continued for decades in many forms. Between 1930 and 1953, the composer wrote eleven orchestral overtures inspired by Shakespeare’s plays  — a notable contribution to the twentieth-century orchestral repertoire. Today, thanks to the recent publication by Casa Ricordi of four previously unavailable overtures, the complete cycle of the eleven Shakespeare Overtures is now available for rental via Zinfonia.

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08 Oct
Quartetto Adorno and pianist Alessandro Marangoni performing Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Second Piano Quintet at the Steinway & Sons Flagship Store in Milan during the celebration of the composer’s 130th birthday and the 10th anniversary of the Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Collection, with Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Laura Moro of Edizioni Curci.

An Evening to Remember in Milan

Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco / News /

On September 11, 2025, at the Steinway & Sons Flagship Store in Milan, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s 130th birthday was celebrated along with the tenth anniversary of the Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Collection, published by Edizioni Curci in collaboration with CIDIM – Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica. Quartetto Adorno [Edoardo Zosi, Liù Silvia Pellicciari, Benedetta Bucci, and Maria Salvatori] and the pianist Alessandro Marangoni delighted the audience by performing two works featured on their recordings for Naxos: the first, devoted to Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s quartets, has already received wide critical acclaim; the second, featuring his quintets, will be released in early 2026—and is eagerly awaited.
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