Tango Argentino

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Cat No: 8555721

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Release Date: 01 January 2004

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 747313572120

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Tango Argentino

Description
Tango ArgentinoThe tango is essentially associated with Buenos Aires andits racial and cultural amalgam. It is derived from the cross-culturalinfluences of the Spanish, native Indians and Negroes, colonists, indigenousinhabitants and slaves. The first of these influences was the candombe heard inthe first quarter of the nineteenth century among the portenos of Concepcion,San Telmo and Monserrat, the so-called 'districts of the drum'. Then, in the second half of the nineteenthcentury, the habanera, of Spanish origin, came to the Argentines from Cuba withthe boats that sailed to Buenos Aires for cargos of salted beef. This and theAndalusian fandango were taken up by the criollos, who made various variousrhythmic modifications which in turn led to the milonga, inspired by thecandombe, adapted by the criollos, bringing together African feeling and thespirit of the people of the River Plate districts.While in the ball-rooms of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, peopledanced European polkas and mazurkas, in the slums there was a native sensualityin the milonga. From the ranches came payadores, gaucho singers, with theirmelodies, and the tango would first have been seen on the dirt patios of thepulperia (saloons). The sung verses began to have their own style and themesand from these and the milongas came the new music that would be called thetango, bringing together the gaucho and the candombe of the blacks. A futherinfluence was that of the Italian immigrants, with their own feeings ofnostalgia. Eladia Blazquez, poet and singer, and a leading authority onthe modern tango, was born in 1927. Her Sueno de barrilete (Kite-flying dream)was written in 1957. During the long spring evenings in Buenos Aires, walkingthrough her neighbourhood, she came across some children absorbed in flying akite, with its trail of coloured strips of cloth, watching it with hope. To herthe kite seemed to symbolize the daily life and dreams of the city.The composer and guitarist Carlos Moscardini was born inBuenos Aires in 1959, and for many years has collaborated with importantartists in Argentinean folk-music. He won the Primer Certamen Libre de la NuevaM??sica Popular de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, has made recordings for sologuitar and has played in the most important cities of Argentina, and also inChile, Canada, Spain, Scandinavia and Germany, collaborating in some fiftyconcerts in Japan. Milonga de un entrevero (Milonga of confusion) refers in itstitle to the typical milonga and to the early twentieth-century entreveros,knife-fights between men settling some affair of honour. In A los tilingos healludes ironically to the tilingos of Buenos Aires in a candombe-milonga,typical in rhythm of the folk-music of the River Plate region.Astor Piazzolla was born in 1921 and as a child moved withhis family to the United States, settling in Greenwich Village. His father gavehim a bandoneon and he studied the piano and classical music in Manhattan,developing an interest in both clas
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