Astor Piazzolla - Les Années Milan '2019

Tracks list

For me, Astor Piazzolla once said, tango was always for the ear rather than the
feet. Piazzolla expanded upon one of the great popular dance traditions of the
Western Hemisphere, constantly crossing and recrossing the line between popular
and classical music.

A tango master not of the barrooms but of the concert hall, Astor Piazzolla was
born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1921. His family moved to New Yorks Little
Italy, and his musical education was shaped by American jazz and pop. But his
father gave him a bandoneón, a large Argentine concertina, to keep the
familys connection to Argentine culture alive, and he also studied classical
music. In 1934, he recorded with the Argentine tango pioneer Carlos Gardel, who
soon would be killed in a plane crash. Returning to Argentina, he played the
bandoneón in a Buenos Aires tango orchestra from 1936 to 1944, but the world
of classical music had made a deep impression on him. A chance meeting with the
great pianist Artur Rubinstein brought him into contact with Alberto Ginastera,
Argentinas leading composer, and that led to several years of classical study.
Piazzollas Sinfonia Buenos Aires gained international acclaim but was poorly
received in the composers home country.

In 1954, Piazzolla went to Paris for further classical studies with the most
famous composition teacher of the time, Nadia Boulanger. However, the experience
led him to reconnect with the tango; Boulanger, after hearing him play one of
his tango pieces, told him to discard the rest of his compositions. Back in
Argentina, Piazzolla created nuevo tango (new tango), which broke sharply with
the genres traditional sound, and once again antagonized tangos Argentine
partisans (he was even beaten up on the street on one occasion). Abroad,
however, Piazzollas reputation began to spread. Often written for his Quinteto
Tango Nuevo (formed in 1960), featuring violin, guitar, piano, bass, and
bandoneón, Piazzollas more than 750 tango compositions included complex
harmonies drawn from the world of modern concert music. The 1968 stage work
Maria de Buenos Aires, inspired by Gershwins Porgy and Bess, finally won over
tango traditionalists, and for the last two decades of his life Piazzolla was an
Argentine hero. Internationally, his reputation with both popular and
specialized audiences continued to grow; his compositions became part of the
1986 musical Tango Argentina and also attracted progressive musicians like the
members of the Kronos Quartet, who recorded Piazzollas Five Tango Sensations of
1989. He died in Buenos Aires on July 5, 1992.

Piazzolla reawakened interest in the tango, and the international exposure given
his works touched off a series of tango films, stage productions, and
recordings. The key to Piazzollas popularity was that no matter how much he
experimented with the musical materials of the tango, he never lost touch with
its sensual yet despairing emotional essence. The popularity of Piazzollas
unique blend of tango, classical music, and jazz continued to grow after his
death. Jazz musicians, such as guitarists Al di Meola and Charlie Byrd and the
vibraphonist Gary Burton have used Piazzollas music as a point of departure, and
classical performers as well took to his music; at the end of the 1990s,
recordings by the famed Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer showed that despite its
association with the bandoneón, Piazzollas music could be transferred to
other instruments. At the turn of the century, Piazzollas boundary-crossing
music was continuing to gain listeners of all kinds.

Tracklist:
4:16 | 01. Ensemble Paris Tango - Ouverture (El Sueno de una Noche de Verano)
1:51 | 02. Ensemble Paris Tango - Milonga (El Sueno de una Noche de Verano)
5:51 | 03. Ensemble Paris Tango, Richard Galliano - Obéron Final (El Sueno de
una Noche de Verano)
4:03 | 04. Astor Piazzolla, Fernando Solanas, Roberto Goyeneche - Vuelvo al Sur
(Sur)
2:57 | 05. Astor Piazzolla - Tristeza, Separacion (Sur)
6:18 | 06. Astor Piazzolla - Regreso al Amor (Sur)
2:14 | 07. Richard Galliano, Françoise Espinoza, Maria Logo, Frédéric
Guerrouet - Ma tante emma la pianiste (Famille dartistes)
2:21 | 08. Richard Galliano, Françoise Espinoza, Iris Marga, Maria Logo,
Marilu Marini, Rodolfo De Souza, Frédéric Guerrouet, Lia Jelin, Zobeida,
Facundo Bo, Rosaria Audras - Les artistes / Tous (Famille dartistes)
3:23 | 09. Richard Galliano, Françoise Espinoza, Maria Logo, Frédéric
Guerrouet - Tango final (Famille dartistes)
8:30 | 10. Astor Piazzolla, Daniel Binelli, Ángel Ridolfi, Carlos Nozzi,
Horacio Malvicino, Gerardo Gandini - Adios Nonino (The Lausanne Concert)
6:28 | 11. Astor Piazzolla, Daniel Binelli, Ángel Ridolfi, Carlos Nozzi,
Horacio Malvicino, Gerardo Gandini - Milonga del Angel (The Lausanne Concert)
6:39 | 12. Astor Piazzolla, Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs - Allegro
Tranquillo (LUltime Concert - Tres Tango para Bandoneon y Orquesta)
5:17 | 13. Astor Piazzolla, Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs - Moderato
Mistico (LUltime Concert - Tres Tango para Bandoneon y Orquesta)
5:02 | 14. Astor Piazzolla, Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs - Allegretto
Molto Marcato (LUltime Concert - Tres Tango para Bandoneon y Orquesta)
7:07 | 15. Astor Piazzolla, Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs - Allegro Marcato
(LUltime Concert - Concierto para Bandoneon y Orquesta)
6:47 | 16. Astor Piazzolla, Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs - Moderato
(LUltime Concert - Concierto para Bandoneon y Orquesta)
7:02 | 17. Astor Piazzolla, Orchestre Athénien des Couleurs - Presto (LUltime
Concert - Concierto para Bandoneon y Orquesta)
5:03 | 18. Astor Piazzolla, Fernando Suarez Paz, Hector Consoli, Pablo Ziegler,
Oscar López Ruiz - Duo de Amor (Tango, el Exilio de Gardel - Sur el Viaje)
2:53 | 19. Astor Piazzolla, Fernando Suarez Paz, Hector Consoli, Pablo Ziegler,
Oscar López Ruiz - Tanguedia 1 (Tango, el Exilio de Gardel - Sur el Viaje)
3:43 | 20. Astor Piazzolla, Fernando Suarez Paz, Hector Consoli, Pablo Ziegler,
Oscar López Ruiz - Tanguedia 2 (Tango, el Exilio de Gardel - Sur el Viaje)
3:48 | 21. Astor Piazzolla, Fernando Suarez Paz, Hector Consoli, Pablo Ziegler,
Oscar López Ruiz - Tanguedia 3 (Tango, el Exilio de Gardel - Sur el Viaje)

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