The Soul Of Tango: Greatest Hits

Performer: Astor Piazzolla
Artist: Pablo Ziegler; Cacho Tirao
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Astor Piazolla (conductor, bandoneon); Roberto "El Polaco" Goyeneche (vocals); Orchestre Philharmonique De Liege Et De La Communaute Francaise De Belgique, Orchestre Du Theatre Colon (various instruments); Cacho Tirao, Horacio Malvicino, Oscar Lopez Ruiz (guitar); Antonio Agri, Pablo Suarez Paz, Hugo Baralis (violin); Jose Bragato (violoncello); Julio Pane (bandoneon); Oswaldo Tarantino, Pablo Ziegler, Gerardo Gandini (piano); Kicho Diaz, Hector Console (double bass); Enrique Roizner (percussion); Delmar Quarleri. Engineers: Carlos Melero, Oswaldo Acedo, Hector Alessio. Principally recorded at Theatre Odeon, Theatre Colon & Club Italien, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Theatre Roxy, Mar Del Plata, Argentina; Studio ICP, Brussels, Belgium; between 1973 & 1989. Includes liner notes by Emmanuel Chamboredon & Alfredo Arias.

Mojo (Publisher) (8/03, p.114) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...It is, like every moment of his entire output, characterised by passion and sophistication."

While tango had long been associated with the dancehalls of Buenos Aires, Astor Piazolla reinvented the music for the concert stage. In the 1950s and 1960s, he infused tango with the oblique harmonies of jazz and classical music, as well as new instruments such as electric guitar, and although he may have alienated traditionalists, he gained a worldwide audience seduced by his music's exotic beauty. Over the course of five decades, Piazolla continually expanded the scope of the tango--or "tango nuevo," as his music came to be called--to produce a wealth of inventive, emotionally rich music. He died in 1992.

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