L'histoire du tango, tango cycle for flute & guitar
Pieces (5) for guitar
Concerto for bandoneón, guitar & string orchestra ("Hommage ŕ Liege")
This disc's subtitle, "Complete Guitar Music," doesn't mean what it normally means: only one work here, the Cinco piezas, is for solo guitar. We also have music for two guitars (the Tango Suite, for violin and guitar; L'histoire du tango; and for guitar, bandoneón, and strings, the Double Concerto, "Hommage ŕ Ličge"), with the lead guitar of Italian performer Matteo Mela playing a slightly different role in each case. Still, it's both pleasant and instructive to hear all these pieces together on one program. Piazzolla's ...
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This disc's subtitle, "Complete Guitar Music," doesn't mean what it normally means: only one work here, the Cinco piezas, is for solo guitar. We also have music for two guitars (the Tango Suite, for violin and guitar; L'histoire du tango; and for guitar, bandoneón, and strings, the Double Concerto, "Hommage ŕ Ličge"), with the lead guitar of Italian performer Matteo Mela playing a slightly different role in each case. Still, it's both pleasant and instructive to hear all these pieces together on one program. Piazzolla's works involving guitar were all written toward the end of his life, beginning around 1980 and continuing to his final, unfulfilled commission from Mstislav Rostropovich for a concerto for cello, piano, guitar, and percussion. He wrote them with specific guitarists in mind, but the medium also intersected in intriguing ways with the larger ambitions shown by his late works in general: Piazzolla lived long enough to be hailed as a great and influential figure, and he tried to live up to...
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