Concierto Para Quinteto [Import] [Live]

1. Concierto Para Quinteto

2. Invireno Porteno (Nueava

3. Primavera Portena (Nueava

4. La Casita De Mis Viejos

5. Mi Refugio

6. Loca Bohemia

7. Flores Negras

8. En Las Sombras

9. Margarita Gauthuer

10. Recuerdos De Bohemia

11. Milonga Triste

12. El Motivo

13. Volver

14. Casapueblo

15. Flaco Aroldi

16. Con Alma Y Vida

17. Tres En Magoya

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese Reissue featuring Seven Bonus Tracks.

Tracks:

Milonga En Re
Vardarito
Oblivion
Escualo
Histoire Du Tango: Cafe 1930
Concierto Para Quinteto
Soledad
Buenos Aires Hora Cero
Celos
El Sol Sueno (Hommage A Astor Piazzolla)
Le Grand Tango

Amazon.com essential recording

Gidon Kremer, who plays the standard violin repertoire so well, has remained a restless explorer of music. Here is his first album of Piazzolla arrangements, introduced by a moving and perceptive assessment of Piazzolla by composer John Adams. Kremer has completely steeped himself in the spirit of the tango, and of Piazzolla's transformation of this music into concert works. The selection (mostly larger-scale Piazzolla works), the varied arrangements, and the compelling quality of the playing make this one of the best albums of this music not involving the composer's own performances. And if you love it, you'll be glad to know that Kremer's second Piazzolla album is also available. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Wonderfully captivating music by the tango master.......2005-10-25

I was introduced to the music of Astor Piazzolla by the more than great violinist Gidon Kremer when he played a virtuosic tango as an encore. Whenever a rich new vein of wonderful music is opened to me, well, it makes for a bright and happy day. Not long after I picked up this CD and I can recommend it to you highly. This is more than just tango dance music, these are serious and contemplative compositions that use the Tango as the vehicle just as the classical and especially Baroque composers used their dance music for instrumental compositions. The music is full of mood, sensuality, rhythm, lush harmonies, dissonance, love, and pain. It is a music of contrasts and never gets too fussy or complicated. It wears its heart on its sleeve and draws us in because it is so charming.

Each piece has its own varied ensemble and the musicians in that ensemble also arrange the music for that track. Kremer leads from the violin in all of them, after all it is his album and his hommage to Piazzolla. However, the instruments used depend on the musical materials and mood of the piece. The piano is used quite a bit, and at times there are wind instruments. The bandoneón is required in tango, as well. It is a kind of concertina that was developed and made in Germany, but adopted in Argentina for the Tango. It has a wonderfully reedy sound and is played with buttons on each side of the bellows. Depending on the model, the note can change or stay the same whether you are pulling the bellows out or pushing them in, but in all of them there are two voices always at the octave and gives the bandoneón its characteristic sound.

The only composition not by Piazzolla is a very interesting tango included as a tribute to the master entitled "El sol sueño" by Jerzy Peterbushsky.

This is good music and a very enjoyable change of pace.

When styles mix.......2005-09-07

I bought this record following a live performance by Gidon Kremer et al. at the Verbier Festival. The mixture of classical music with a dose of jazz on a Latin base produces an interesting result that is quite surprising at first. However, the more one hears, the more the result grows on the listener, just as at the live show where the audience, somewhat stunned at the outset, gave a standing ovation at the end.

Overall, the mélange is pleasant, chill listening to be appreciated by fans of any of the three styles of music.

Explains It All To Those Wounded in Love.......2005-01-16

Ever have a moment where you loved someone so much you hated him?

Ever have a relationship you could not get out of your mouth, your mind, your heart, your system, but that you knew was over and done with forever and ever, and you'd never even see the other again?

Ever feel so happy you wanted to cry? No, sob? Wrenching, wracking sobs? From happiness, now.

Yes?

Have I got a CD for you: Hommage a Piazzolla, featuring Gidon Kremer.

Like many, I suspect, I have a mixed relationship to tango. When I put on a tango CD, I fear I'll be hearing something that sets my teeth to jangling and makes me want to slap someone in the face.

This isn't that. You could listen to most of this while sitting perfectly still, on a window sill, in fact, with the lights down low in your apartment, as you stare out at the rain-slicked city at night. A drink sits on a nearby table, unfinished...you have no will to finish it.

(It's hard not to imagine these things while listening to this music; really, it's all so poetic, cinematic, irresistable.)

At some point, though, you're probably not going to be able to sit still any more, and you'll have to put that rose in your teeth and cut a few moves.

Tango often sounds, to we non-Argentinians, like a parody of itself.

This CD does not.

Rather, when I put it on, not at all sure what to expect, I had one of those epiphanies that art can give you.

I had been brooding over a vexed relationship, one I did not understand, but knew was hurting me, not with any immediacy, but like a sore tooth that could stand to go a few more months before you get over your fear of the dentist to get it fixed.

What bugged me most of all was that I did not understand what was hurting. Rationally, I had no reason to feel troubled.

I put on this CD, with the relationship way in the back of my mind, and I just, immediately thought, "That's it. This music is explaining it all; this music is articulating everything."

Not bad.

This kind of music, music that allows in the true bittersweet of life, the unsolvable, the passion, is all too rare. If music that addresses those qualities is what you crave, this CD might be just what you need.

Great sex music! Comes from the heart!.......2004-07-21

The music and perforamance are so sensually played and achingly beautiful, the hairs on my neck and arms stand up on end. Listen to the opening track and tell me this is not great sex music. Yes, tango is a very sensual art form and this CD is great for those very intimate moments. Of course, sex aside, the music is nothing short of a miracle unto itself. That I was to discover this CD just last year meant I was without it for 7 years since it was released. My life is richer for this and other Piazzolla works done by Kremer.
This CD has become one of those "island" CDs that you would take if you wer so to become deserted on one. You should be so lucky!

Piazzolla's Unofficial Interpreter.......2001-04-12

I first became aware of this CD several years ago as its melancholy strains wafted through the air of a bookstore through which I was browsing. My ears perked up...Piazzolla!!! Upon inquiry, I was shown the CD and I immediately purchased a copy. I couldn't wait to get home and listen to it at elevated volume. What a recording!! Kremer has captured and distilled the essence of Piazzolla's music. Every song is a masterpiece and nearly all of my favorite mid-period Piazzolla compositions are contained within. A special treat is the magnum opus which closes the set, a 12-minute rendering of Le Grand Tango with just Kremer's violin and the restrained passion of Vadim Sakharov's piano to lead your mind into another musical dimension. Gidon Kremer has since recorded a number of Piazzolla-related CDs and in so doing has set himself up as the unofficial interpreter of El Maestro's music. If you like Piazzolla, you are sure to enjoy this CD. I give it my highest recommendation.

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Concierto Para Quinteto
Astor Piazzolla
Manufacturer: Sony Bmg
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Argentina | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000BTCIX2
Release Date: 2007-03-02

Tracks:

Concierto Para Quinteto
Invireno Porteno
Primavera Portena
Casita de Mis Viejos
Mi Refugio
Loca Bohemia
Flores Negras
En Las Sombras
Margarita Gauthuer
Recuerdos de Bohemia
Milonga Triste
Motivo
Volver
Casapueblo
Flaco Aroldi
Con Alma y Vida
Tres en Magoya

Album Details

Reissue of the Original Album.

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Piazzolla Shines Sur La Main Parisienne

Libertango

Manufacturer: Aeon France
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Argentina | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classical | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00069KF9G
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

Tangata
Escualo
Libertango
Concierto Para Quinteto
Adios Nonino
Verano Porteno
Mumuki
Michelangelo 70
Muerte del Angel
Soledad

Customer Reviews:

Piazzolla Shines Sur La Main Parisienne.......2007-02-18

Classical music often leaves me drowsy or distracted, but this is something different. Like tango partners, Paris and Argentina have long been sinuously intertwined, the Spanish artist being drawn into the arms of the French city, which seduces and renews him: one example being Julio Cortazar's book "Hopscotch," another being this CD. In this rich tradition, the young, ambitious, but little-known Quatuor Caliente, a quartet of five Parisians (a quartet of a bandeonist, pianist, violinist, and double-bassist augmented by a guest vibraphonist) has taken Piazzolla's masterpiece and spun it rapidly around, showing off its sparkling classical and jazz-infused ornament and leaving the listener ravished and fulfilled. The Quartet's playing is impeccable, sumptous, yet alert to Piazolla's subversive cleverness, and like after any good tango, both partners, the great Piazzolla and the radiant Quatour, are left much the better.

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Piazzolla Surprises Again!

Concierto Para Quinteto
Astor Piazzolla
Manufacturer: Bmg Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Argentina | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music

General | International | Styles | Music

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

International | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00000G6IH
Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

Concierto Para Quinteto
Invireno Porteno
Primavera Portena
Casita de Mis Viejos
Mi Refugio
Loca Bohemia
Flores Negras
En Las Sombras
Margarita Gauthuer
Recuerdos de Bohemia
Milonga Triste
Motivo
Volver
Casapueblo
Flaco Aroldi
Con Alma y Vida
Tres en Magoya

Album Details

Japanese Reissue featuring Seven Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Piazzolla Surprises Again!.......2000-10-04

No matter how many times Astor Piazzolla records a song for an album, it invariably ends up with a different feel from one recorded previously. Though the title cut is not advertised as a new version, it essentially is one. Percussion is stronger and the song has a "live" feel to it. It is one of the epic pieces in the Piazzolla repertoire. Invierno Porteno and Primavera Portena are likewise Piazzolla classics and are here advertised as new versions. And how! Piazzolla surprises once again shining a new light on these venerable standards. The next six songs on the album feature Piazzolla bandoneon solos. Only a couple were familiar. These cuts have the feel of film music. The rest of the album is quite good, filled with mostly unfamiliar material. If you are a true Piazzolla believer, then it behooves you to find a place on your CD stand for this album, you won't be disappointed.