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Piazzolla on Video
http://piazzollavideo.blogspot.com/
A blog devoted to video of performances of music composed by Astor Piazzolla.
Recent Posts
Sinfonia Buenos Aires
Perhaps the most important composition in Piazzolla's career is Sinfonia Buenos Aires - a fragment of which is featured in today's video. It is also one of the very least played Piazzolla compositions. This is the first video of a live performance o...
Odair Assad and Fernando Suarez Paz
Today's video finds two of the more accomplished performers of Piazzolla's music joined in a delightful performance of Bordel 1900 from the Histoire du tango suite. The piece was originally written for flute and guitar but works, perhaps even better,...
Bandoneón from Suite Troileana
In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross uses the word virtuoso ten times. Twice it refers to Liszt and never does it refer to a twentieth century composer. If Mr. Ross had the insight to include Astor Piazzolla in his bo...
Adios Nonino - Buenos Aires 8
Remember the 70's? There are many visual cues in this interesting video which may help bring back those memories. The video is from the 1976 movie El canto cuenta su historia (which translates roughly to The Song Tells Its Story) by Fernando Ayala a...
Mostly Strings or Mostly Reeds
The first video today contains one accordionist and forty string players - the second features one string player and forty accordionists. Both groups play Libertango. How many songs are flexible enough to cover such a range of instrumentation? I hap...
Jeanne y Paul
In 1972, Bernardo Bertolucci was planning his upcoming film, Last Tango in Paris. According to the Azzi/Collier book, Le Grand Tango, Piazzolla was approached to do the music for the film. For reasons forever lost, he did not get the job - Gato Bar...
