Piazzolla: Concertos & Chamber Works
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA C o n c e r t o s & C h a m b e r Wo r k s SABATIER I WUTTKE I HOLZENKAMP Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim I Handschuh Living For The Tango There’s Stravinsky, there’s Bartók, there’s Hindemith; but where is Piazzolla? With this question, the leading composition teacher Nadia Boulanger set the course of a musical about-turn in the work of her student Astor Piazzolla. We speak of tango nuevo – the new tango – created by this very man, Astor Piazzolla. At first, it brought the young composer little more than hostility in his Argentine homeland, but it later brought him world fame. To reach that point was a long journey.
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