String quartets for a summer day’s sundown

String quartets for a summer day’s sundown

Album Of The Week

norman lebrecht

August 09, 2024

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

If it’s summer music you’re after, it doesn’t come much sunnier than this. Castelnuovo-Tedesco – it translates as Newcastle German – was a Florentine who traced his lineage to the Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. Oppressed by Mussolini’s racial laws, he migrated to the US in 1939, his visa sponsored by Jascha Heifetz….

 

Read on here.

And here.

En francais ici.

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