Castelnuovo-Tedesco: 24 Caprichos de Goya

"This is a well-played, well-recorded and well-documented version of a sequence for guitar which deserves to be better known than it is. It is a work which deserves to be heard, more often, as a whole, rather than merely excerpted as part of one or another recital. This is a work which deserves to find more hearers than it has hitherto attracted; and this is a recording well-fitted to help it do so."
(MusicWeb June 2009)

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. 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.