Adios Nonino [Circular Moves]

Performer: Astor Piazzolla
Engineer: Osvaldo Acedo
Producer: Alfredo Radoszynski
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon); Oscar Lopez Ruiz (guitar); Antonio Agri (violin); Dante Amicarelli (piano); Kicho Diaz (bass). Recorded at Estudios Ion S.A., Buenos Aries, Argentina in 1969. Personnel: Astor Piazzolla (bandoneon); Oscar Lopez Ruiz (guitar); Antonio Agri (violin); Dante Amicarelli (piano); Juan Carlos Manojas (12-string bass). Liner Note Authors: Alfredo Radoszynski; Astor Piazzolla. Recording information: Estudios Ion S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina (03/1969-06/1969). Astor Piazzolla opened the ears of many listeners to a more progressive form of the tango, and the Adios Nonino session from 1969 features the bandoneon player leading one of his strongest quintets. It is impossible to listen to any of this album's seven tracks without feeling the emotion that went into the writing and performing of each of them. One of his best-known pieces, "Adios Nonino," was reorchestrated by the leader for the occasion, beginning with a stunning solo by pianist Dante Amicarelli prior to the entry of the full group. The piece reaches a feverish pitch at the height of Piazzolla's solo. "Michelangelo 70" is an intriguing piece that is centered on a repeated three-note theme, composed as a sort of musical exercise. "Fugata" is just what its title indicates, an intricate fugue where the instruments are interested one at a time as this intense miniature builds to a surprisingly subdued conclusion. Highly recommended. ~ Ken Dryden

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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