Romance del Diablo: The Music of Piazzolla

Featuring

Marco Albonetti
Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana
Ástor Piazzolla

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Interpretation

Marco Albonetti, the saxophonist on this album, adapted Piazzolla's bandoneón parts for soprano saxophone, believing its sound is similar and can express a wide range of human emotions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Piazzolla considered Buenos Aires, his hometown, as his third great teacher, teaching him the secrets of tango.

Compositional Technique

Piazzolla's Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) incorporates percussive effects from tango musicians and his own innovations, like police or ambulance sirens, to evoke the cacophony of Buenos Aires.

Composer Biography

Astor Piazzolla, the composer, was born on March 11, 1921, and passed away on July 4, 1992.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Piazzolla's music uniquely blends Argentine tango rhythms with his Italian musical heritage, jazz dissonances, and klezmer influences.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Piazzolla transformed tango from a dance hall genre to a concert hall art form by enriching its harmonic language and focusing on the music itself.

Instruments

Astor Piazzolla was a virtuoso performer of the bandoneón, an instrument whose velvet sound captured the eroticism, nostalgia, and melancholy of restless people.