Julyo plays Piazzolla: Album Preview

Album preview https://promo.theorchard.com/WSllCvT9yYfCEsbOj6QD

Release date: 24th April 2020
UPC: 195081344447

This selection of Astor Piazzolla classics was recorded more than a decade ago, but still retains the magic of a period when I was exploring the music of South America (of course including Argentinan tango). Several years later, during 2019, I had the pleasure to perform "Milonga del Angel" along with Italian composer and piano player Dario Rodighiero for the theatrical play "Neruda’s Tango' directed by Gerardo Placido and premiered at the Liberty Hall Theatre in Dublin (a photo is attached at the bottom of this post).

TRACKLIST

Verano Porteño

Verano Porteño (Buenos Aires Summer) written in 1965[1], originally as incidental music for the play 'Melenita de oro' by Alberto Rodríguez Muñoz. In 1996-1998, the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov made a new arrangement of the above four pieces with a more obvious link between Vivaldi and Piazzolla, by converting each of the pieces into three-section pieces, and re-arranging for solo violin and string orchestra. In each piece, he included several quotations from original Vivaldi's work but due to seasons being inverted between northern and southern hemispheres, thus, for example, Verano Porteño had added elements of L'inverno (Winter) of Vivaldi.

Milonga del Angel

Milonga del Ángel is a composition of Ástor Piazzolla. It's the second part of the Angel Series, a composition from 1965. He recorded it live in 1965, and then on his 1986 album Tango: Zero Hour.

Milonga de Luna

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