The cover and tracklist of this British release do not quite convey what it's all about. It is not simply a performance by a classical chamber orchestra of some familiar Piazzolla pieces with a few neo-tango compositions added on. The revival of Astor Piazzolla's music may have been more pervasive in Britain than anywhere else, and pianist David Gordon and violinist Adam Summerhayes, working with the London Concertante orchestra, try something that no one else has quite attempted: a continuum of adaptation, beginning with ...
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The cover and tracklist of this British release do not quite convey what it's all about. It is not simply a performance by a classical chamber orchestra of some familiar Piazzolla pieces with a few neo-tango compositions added on. The revival of Astor Piazzolla's music may have been more pervasive in Britain than anywhere else, and pianist David Gordon and violinist Adam Summerhayes, working with the London Concertante orchestra, try something that no one else has quite attempted: a continuum of adaptation, beginning with fairly close string adaptations of Milonga del ángel and Muerte del ángel (although these two are fused together and capped with a Piazzolla-like fugue derived from the latter). From there the pair move through fairly substantially altered version of Piazzolla works (Soledad, which is sort of stripped down and then reconstituted), jazz treatment of Piazzolla (Decarísimo and Invierno porteño), and finally original pieces by Summerhayes, picking up on one aspect or another of...
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