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Piazzolla: Tangos arranged for saxophone and orchestra
et al Astor Piazzolla (Composer)
Piazzolla: Tangos arranged for saxophone and orchestra
Genres: International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
 
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Federico Mondelci and the strings of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra have collectively caught the tango bug and dedicated an entire program to Piazzolla here. Suddenly strings and saxophone alike have become inflamed with a n...  more »

     
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All Artists: et al Astor Piazzolla (Composer)
Title: Piazzolla: Tangos arranged for saxophone and orchestra
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Label: Delos Records
Original Release Date: 8/3/1999
Release Date: 8/3/1999
Genres: International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
Styles: Latin Music, Tango, Easy Listening, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 013491325224

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Federico Mondelci and the strings of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra have collectively caught the tango bug and dedicated an entire program to Piazzolla here. Suddenly strings and saxophone alike have become inflamed with a new and beautiful fever that manifests itself in shivers, secrets, palpitations, flowing silences, triumphs and tears that crackle beneath the music's dark surface, merging in an elegant and intense unity like the balance of reason and passion. Mondelci has reworked Piazzolla's music with originality and fantasy, clothing it in the same instinctive elegance with which the muted yet penetrating tone of his saxophone recalls the bandoneon's haughty languors. With deft affection, Mondelci's devotion, professionalism, and sheer love of his instrument share the same intuition that tormented and motivated the young Piazzolla: the need to completely rethink -- but always with respect and admiration -- a music that already existed, and to reweave its thematic material according to his own sensibilities and creative imperatives.Mondelci has succeeded magnificently in blending intimacy and distance, plenitude and emptiness, bombast and lyricism, and he has done so with arranging so intelligent as to be imperceptible.From the overflowing vessel of melodies written and recorded by Piazzolla for various ensembles and purposes, Mondelci, in this anthology-like sequence, has accomplished a new and sophisticated interweaving of orchestra and soloist, where profane angels, loosed from their urban shackles, are free to sing of their ardent dreams of a most human resurrection.

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CD Reviews

Lovely, lovely listening
F. Behrens | Keene, NH USA | 08/09/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Oh, no! I thought when yet another tango CD came my way for review. Well, I should have thought Oh, yes! The Delos label seldom disappoints and their new by Piazzolla (DE 3252) is quite lovely. Here we have Saxophonist Federico Mondelci and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Constantine Orbelian in a program of 12 arrangements (mostly by the soloist) of tangos by Astor Piazzolla, mostly on the moody side, but all a welcome relief from the barrage of atonal bangings on one side and the tuneless mediocrities that pass for popular and show music today. A good deal of this will remind you of "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" and other earlier works that capture the sultriness of the Spanish climate and mindset. I highly recommend this Delos offering."