PIAZZOLLA Escualo. Histoire du Tango. Angel Suite
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Composer or Director: Astor Piazzolla, J P Jofre
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 03/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 49
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: HMU90 7627
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Escualo |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer J P Jofre, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
Histoire du Tango |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
Valsísimo |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
(6) Tango-Etudes, Movement: No 3 |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
Chiquilín de Bachin |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
Milonga del ángel |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer J P Jofre, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
(La) Muerte del ángel |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer J P Jofre, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
Resurrección del Angel (Resurrection of the Angel) |
Astor Piazzolla, Composer
Ann Hobson Pilot, Harp Astor Piazzolla, Composer J P Jofre, Composer Lucia Lin, Violin |
Author: Guy Rickards
Ann Hobson Pilot was for four decades a harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She plays Piazzolla here as if born to it and the partnership with violinist Lucia Lin is enchanting, as in Kari Vehmanen’s arrangement of Histoire du Tango. There is a danger, for sure, that the harp’s consonant sonority prettifies the textures, masking the darker undercurrents in Piazzolla’s writing; Michael Maganuco’s arrangement of the well-known Valsisimo is a case in point, spilling over into the saccharine.
The addition of the bandoneón itself, heard in the opening Escualo and closing Ángel Suite (both arranged by Maganuco in collaboration with the bandoneónist, here, JP Jofre), negates this tendency. Both works catch that typically Piazzollan combination of the sweet and the seamy very nicely indeed, and the performances (throughout, indeed) are impeccable. Good sound, too.
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