Soprano Caroline Helton and pianist Kathryn Goodson perform an all-Castelnuovo-Tedesco program at the University of Michigan School of Music, Britton Recital Hall, on Sunday, October 20, 2019, at 4:30 pm. A large part of this program was premiered in Rome, a collaboration ICAMus-Sapienza Università di Roma, in June 2018.

Caroline Helton and Kathryn Goodson perform the complete program of their forthcoming CD, entirely devoted to the settings of Italian poetry by Italian American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968). The concert takes place in the Britton Recital Hall of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, on Sunday, October 20, 2019, at 4:30 pm.

Settings of poetry by Francesco Petrarca, Francesco Redi, Mario Dell’Arco, and of traditional and vernacular texts.

Most of this program was premiered in Rome on June 14, 2018; the project was a collaboration between ICAMus and Sapienza Università di Roma. New rare Castelnuovo-Tedesco pieces have since been added to the recital and album.

Photo reproduced on flyer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Florence, early 1930s; Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Papers, The Library of Congress Music Division; used by permission limited to the ICAMus projects.

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CONCERT PROGRAM 

MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895-1968)

Tre Fioretti di Santo Francesco

Text by Anonymous, c. late XIV cent.; attrib. by some scholars to Ugolino Brunforte, c. 1262-1348. Francesco d’Assisi (Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone), 1181/1182-1226 ∙ Comp.: Florence 1919-1920. Vers. for voice & piano (orig. vers. for voice & orch.). Publ.: Forlivesi, Firenze 1924

I. Come Santo Francesco dimesticò le tortole salvatiche

II. Come Santo Francesco liberò uno frate che era in peccato col Demonio

III. Come Santo Francesco e Santa Chiara feciono uno desinare in Santa Maria degli Angeli, e parea che tutto lo luogo ardesse

Due Sonetti del Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374 · Il Canzoniere (Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta), c. 1327-1368 ∙ Comp.: Firenze 1933. Publ.: Ricordi, Milano 1934

I. Zefiro torna, e ‘l bel tempo rimena

II. Benedetto sia ‘l giorno e ‘l mese e l’anno

Stelle cadenti

Dodici poesie vernacolari toscane ∙ Comp.: Firenze 1915-1918. Publ.: Forlivesi, Firenze 1919

I. Oh! Quanto siete pallida nel viso!

II. Fior d’erba secca

III. Mi vo’ far fare una casina in piazza

IV. M’affaccio alla finestra e vedo l’onde

V. Fiorin di pepe

VI. Sono stata all’appalto a pigliar sale

VII. Fiorin d’alloro

VIII. Vado di notte come va la luna

IX. Oh! come fa la donna contadina

X. Sono stato all’Inferno e son tornato

XI. Ho visto la Sirena in mezzo al mare

XII. Quando, bellino, al cielo salirai

Quattro Scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi

Francesco Redi, 1626-1697 ∙ Comp.: Firenze 1924. Publ.: Forlivesi, Firenze 1925

I. La pastorella

II. Prete Pero

III. Leggenda

IV. Ballatella

Cinque Poesie Romanesche

Mario Dell’Arco (Mario Fagiolo), 1905-1996 ∙ Comp.: Beverly Hills 1946. Publ.: Forlivesi, Firenze 1948

I. Sogni

II. Palloncini

III. Piove

IV. Grandine

V. Er treno