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Artist:
Astor Piazzolla
Title:
Essential Tango

Tracks:
CD1:
1 Los Sueños
2 Vuelvo Al Sur
3 Milonga del Angel
4 Muerte del Angel
5 Resurrección del Angel
6 Buenos Aires Hora Cero
7 Tanguedia 11
8 Verano Porteño
9 Moderato
10 Tristeza, separación
11 Milonga For Three (a.k.a. Nuevo Tango)
12 Otoño Porteño
13 Adiós Nonino
CD2 :
1 Libertango
2 Fuga y Misterio
3 Tanguedia 111
4 Duo de Amor
5 Ausencias
6 Mumuki
7 Contrabajísimo
8 Luna
9 Regreso al Amor
10 Lento Melancólico
11 Ballada para un Loco



Details:
2CDs that celebrate the genius of Piazzolla’s 'tango nuevo' revolution. "It’s totally amazing how this guy wrote so many incredible melodies ... He’s like Gershwin was for jazz …" Philippe Cohen Solal of the Gotan Project Astor Piazzolla was one of the greatest figures in 20th century music – a spectacularly prolific artist, whose career revolutionised and universalised Argentinean tango. So it’s ironic that the man whose music most strongly evokes the spirit of Argentina should have only gained full recognition and respect in his home country in the last few years of his life. Until late in his career, he was always more popular in places like Brazil and France and it wasn’t until 1985 that he was honoured with the title of ‘Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires’. To many Argentineans, what he did to tango was unforgivable. What they saw as tango’s golden age was in Piazzolla’s eyes a moribund, formulaic dance music in its twilight years. In a career that stretched from the late 1930s to 1990, (and really went into overdrive from the end of the 1950s) he performed a dizzying intellectual and emotional makeover of tango which introduced elements of jazz and classical music and transformed it into a music for the ears – as well as the soul – rather than just the feet, while still retaining its melancholic, lyrical essence.

Label: Manteca

This item was added to our catalog on Sunday 13 April, 2008