There is a flirtation with twelve-tone technique in the 15th Caprice, but this has evident satiric intentions, which is fitting, because the whole cycle is based on a satirical work of art. Like most of his music since his self-imposed exile from Italy, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Caprichos de Goya is tonal and melodic. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian-Jew who left his native country in 1939 in response to the Mussolini government's racial laws of that year and settled in the United States, was inspired by the association of the instrument with Spain to write a number of works with Spanish flavor. Castelnuovo-Tedesco had been a significant composer in the history of the instrument since meeting Andrés Segovia in Venice in 1932. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's set of 24 Caprichos of Goya is among the most important large-scale cycles of guitar music of the twentieth century. Originally conceived for Andrés Segovia, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s 24 Caprichos de Goya has seldom been recorded complete, as it is here by Croatian guitarist Zoran Dukic, whose spectacular virtuosity, profound musicianship and artistic maturity have won him more first prizes in international competitions than anyone else in the world. With its grotesque cast of supernatural beings and subhuman characters, the satirical etchings of Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos (1799) portray the sufferings of 18th century Spain in some of Western art’s most influential images.
Sueno de la mentira y inconstancia (Dream of lying and inconstancy) 00:05:27 Que pico de oro! (What a golden beak!) 00:02:31ġ0. Obsequio a el maestro (Gift to the master) 00:03:43ĩ. Hilan delgado (They spin finely) 00:03:24Ĩ. El sueno de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters) 00:05:15ħ. De que mal morira? (Of what ill will he die?) 00:04:56Ħ. Si sabra mas el discipulo? (Perhaps the pupil knows better?) 00:03:42Ĥ. Porque fue sensible (Because she was sensitive) 00:04:12ģ. Quien mas rendido? (Which of them is more overwhelmed?) 00:02:34Ģ. No hubo remedio (Nothing could be done about it) 00:06:28ġ. Y se le quema la casa (And he's burning down the house) 00:02:45ġ2. Al Conde Palatino (To the Count Palatine) 00:02:51ġ1. Bien tirada esta (It is nicely stretched) 00:02:59ġ0. Dios la perdone: Y era su madre (God forgive her: and it was her mother) 00:03:40ĩ. Estan calientes (They are hot) 00:02:04Ĩ. El amor y la muerte (Love and death) 00:03:57ħ. Muchachos al avio (The boys getting ready) 00:02:37Ħ.
Ni asi la distingue (Even so he cannot make her out) 00:01:54ĥ. Nadie se conoce (Nobody knows oneself) 00:02:02Ĥ. Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor (Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Painter) 00:03:50Ģ. Castelnuovo Tedesco - 24 Caprichos de Goya Op.