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Featured Release
Astor Piazzolla
The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night
Nuevo tango master Piazzolla composed these pieces for director-choreographer Graciela Daniele’s 1987 adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges stories Tango Apasionado, which the New York Times praised as “a music-theater-dance piece of breathtaking intensity.” Musicians include sax/clarinet player Paquito D’Rivera.
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Astor Piazzolla
The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night
Nuevo tango master Piazzolla composed these pieces for director-choreographer Graciela Daniele’s 1987 adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges stories Tango Apasionado, which the New York Times praised as “a music-theater-dance piece of breathtaking intensity.” Musicians include sax/clarinet player Paquito D’Rivera.
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Astor Piazzolla
La Camorra: The Solitude of Passionate Provocation
Originally released in 1989, Astor Piazzolla’s La Camorra: The Solitude of Passionate Provocation was recorded in New York in May 1988 with his classic New Tango Quintet. The group, which included Fernando Suárez Paz (violin), Pablo Ziegler (piano), Horacio Malvicino, Sr. (guitar) and Héctor Console (bass), worked with Piazzolla from 1978 to 1988. The recording was produced by Kip Hanrahan and originally released by American Clavé. -
Astor Piazzolla
Tango: Zero Hour
Astor Piazzolla called his recording Tango: Zero Hour “absolutely the greatest record I’ve made in my entire life.” The album was recorded in New York with Piazzolla and his classic New Tango Quintet, which worked with Piazzolla from 1978 to 1988 and included Fernando Suárez Paz (violin), Pablo Ziegler (piano), Horacio Malvicino Sr. (guitar), and Héctor Console (bass).
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Gidon Kremer + Astor Piazzolla
El Tango
Kremer revisits the work of Astor Piazzolla on this sequel to the acclaimed Hommage à Piazzolla, along with such guests as Caetano Veloso and the Assad brothers. Billboard declared: "It is hard to imagine his nuevo tango being interpreted with more emotive artistry than that of Gidon Kremer."
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Gidon Kremer + Astor Piazzolla
Hommage à Piazzolla
Gidon Kremer performs the work of composer, arranger, bandoneón virtuoso, and tango master Astor Piazzolla. The acclaimed violinist has assembled a group of musicians modeled after the legendary quintet Piazzolla used for his performances—violin, guitar, bass, piano and bandoneón. Kremer's passionate readings of the composer’s works range from haunting to romantic to rigorous to melancholy.
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Kronos Quartet + Astor Piazzolla
Five Tango Sensations
Argentine legend Piazzolla composed this work especially for Kronos. The result, says the New York Times, is a “set of charmingly melodic tangos in which the group supplied an accompaniment to the composer’s urbane performances on the accordion-like bandoneon.”
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Astor Piazzolla
Concierto Para Bandoneon / Tres Tangos
As Gershwin married jazz with the European symphonic tradition, Piazzolla here transplants the tango into the concert hall, extending its boundaries beyond the limits of song and dance. The album features virtuoso performances by the composer on the bandoneón, the signature instrument of tango, accompanied by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, under the direction of Lalo Schifrin.







