Nadia Boulanger, an eminent teacher in Paris, encouraged Piazzolla to develop his artistic vision through tango rather than focusing on progressive European genres.
Cultural Impact
By the 1980s, Piazzolla's music was famous worldwide and began to gain acceptance in his native Argentina, where his progressive concepts had initially been strongly resisted.
Composer Biography
Piazzolla's father prevented him from touring with Carlos Gardel, the greatest tango singer, who tragically died in a plane crash in 1935, along with the person who went in Piazzolla's place.
Composer Biography
Astor Piazzolla, the composer, emigrated with his family to New York in 1924 and as a child prodigy learned to play the bandoneón, a square-built button accordion popular in Argentinian tango orchestras.
Performer Biography
Aquiles Delle-Vigne, the pianist on this album, is an Argentinean-born musician who won the Grand Prix Albert Williams, the most prestigious competition in South America, at age seventeen.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded at EMS Studios in Brussels, Belgium, in 1989, with Luc Romans as the engineer and Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri as the artistic director.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Piazzolla yearned to develop tango into a more profoundly expressive form, where the music was 'for the ear as well as for the feet,' an attitude initially resented by leading tango practitioners.
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