Denia Gavazzeni Mazzola * La Tilda [New CD] Indie guitars and reverberant horns crescendoing

guitars and reverberant horns crescendoing to cathartic peaks

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Denia Gavazzeni Mazzola * La Tilda [New CD] Indie guitars and reverberant horns crescendoingIn 1915, during World War I, a fire threatened the very existence of the ill fated Tilda, sending it's score and orchestral parts up in flames, leaving to posterity only the reduction for voice and piano and an orchestral copy of the Ave Maria. Late in life, Cilea expresses a positive opinion of his youthful effort: "except for a few amends of the libretto, the score is organic, rich in melodies and written with a greatsense of the theater"; he even