Piazzolla - Tango Nuevo: A Symphonic Homage
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Label: Cybele
Cat No: HDKLASSIKSC862102
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 10th September 2021
Contents
Works
Adios Nonino (tango) (arr. Jose Bragato)Oblivion (arr. Eduardo Marturet)
Sinfonietta
Tangazo: Variations on Buenos Aires
The Four Seasons (Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas)
Artists
Lothar Hensel (bandoneon)Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
Conductor
Rasmus BaumannWorks
Adios Nonino (tango) (arr. Jose Bragato)Oblivion (arr. Eduardo Marturet)
Sinfonietta
Tangazo: Variations on Buenos Aires
The Four Seasons (Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas)
Artists
Lothar Hensel (bandoneon)Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
Conductor
Rasmus BaumannAbout
Piazzolla's roots were also European. The son of an Italian barber who emigrated to Argentina, Piazzolla learned the bandoneon rather begrudgingly. His inner tangomania was only kindled as a 15-year-old, though he maintained his dream of a career as a serious composer. He studied the fusion of South American and European music with his countryman Alberto Ginastera. His Sinfonietta 1953 is as a result unmistakably influenced by the then-prevailing "gods" of Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky. Even if we do not yet encounter the signature sound that would develop later, the Sinfonietta is notable as a remarkable way-station on the 32-year-old's trajectory – and it secured him a national critics' award.
This arrangement of Adios Nonino is also a first recording. Piazzolla's friend José Bragato, whose connection to him was as both a cellist and copyist, left a version for bandoneon and string orchestra. Lothar Hensel remembered a copy of the manuscript in his possession and made a performing edition. Piazzolla composed a declaration of love for the Argentine capital with Tangazo, subtitled Variations on Buenos Aires. After mysterious, chromatic murmuring in the basses, an intense melody, grandiose in its sadness, soars up. And only after this curtain has been lifted do the angular, tattered rhythms leap up like a jack-knife and lead us into the tango bars of the port metropolis.
Piazzolla achieved special success with The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The inhabitants of Buenos Aires call themselves porteño(s) / porteña(s). This work is a monument to the many cultural influences of the port and migrant city. The title alludes, of course, to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and baroque influences such as fugues and motoric motifs mingle with elegant and melancholy tango melodies.
Oblivion ranks among Piazzolla's most famous tangos. The sensual stream of its melody, the syncopated rhythms and the emotional expanse all point to the irresistible characteristics of his style. For this CD, Rasmus Baumann chose an arrangement by the Venezuelan conductor Eduardo Marturet.
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