Piazzolla: El Otro Astor, Music for Guitar and Strings

Quartett Orfeo

95139

Most albums of music by the undisputed master of Argentine tango, Astor Piazzolla are still issued at full price but following the success of ‘Café 1930’ (94896) with guitarist Andrea Dieci and violinist Piercarlo Sacco, Brilliant Classics presents some of the composer’s best-loved ensemble works. The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires is a chic 20th-century counterpart to Vivaldi’s cycle of violin concertos, and has been paired as such in performance and on record by Gidon Kremer among others, as Piazzolla’s music has always been susceptible to sympathetic arrangement; here the cycle of four character pieces is performed in a version (created by the guitarist Giorgio Mirto, who has made many albums for Brilliant Classics) nearer to its origins as a piece for Piazzolla to play on bandoneon with his tango quartet.

Works:
• Piazzólla: Concerto for Bandoneon, Guitar & Orchestra 'Hommage à Liege'
• Piazzólla: Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
• Piazzólla: Invierno Porteño
• Piazzólla: Otoño Porteño
• Piazzólla: Primavera Porteña
• Piazzólla: Verano Porteño
• Piazzólla: Tango Sensations (5) for bandoneón & string quartet
• Piazzólla: Tanti anni prima ('Ave Maria')

CD x 1

Brilliant Classics

2019-11-13

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