All Piazzolla articles
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Review
Anne Akiko Meyers: Shining Night
A legendary ‘del Gesù’ takes centre stage in this wide-ranging recital
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Konstantin Manaev: Love Stories; The Songs of Our Neighbours
A review of two CDs: exuberant explorations of Eastern European and contemporary music
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Adrien La Marca: Chanson Bohème
Glorious, wide-ranging recital of 20th-century violin miniatures
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Review round-up: BBC Proms 2021
Peter Quantrill attends the cream of the strings crop during this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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Live-streamed concert review: KAIA Quartet
Bruce Hodges attends the show at Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, US, on 24 July 2021, from the comfort of his own computer
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Video
Karen Gomyo performs Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Watch Gomyo’s performance of ‘Spring’ from her recent recording with Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, which features in our August issue Session Report
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Linus Roth: Virtuoso Dances
An upbeat collection of dances for violin and piano to raise the spirits
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Gautier Capuçon: Emotions
A collection of popular encores that strikes exactly the right note
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Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights
Lights, camera, action: a violinist’s evocative movie-musical travels
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Arabella Steinbacher: Four Seasons
A popular seasonal pairing full of requisite energy and drama
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Tabea Zimmermann: Cantilena
Wordless songs transcribed for the viola with breathtaking beauty
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Gautier Capuçon: Franck, Chopin, Piazzolla
A superb partnership of star soloists sparks brilliance
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Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky: 20th-Century Classics
A father–daughter combination achieves some almost miraculous musical moments
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Video
Dmitri Kogan plays Piazzolla's Winter
Dmitri Kogan, who has died aged 38 , here plays ‘Winter’ from Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Desyatnikov)
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News
Argentinian cellist José Bragato dies at the age of 101
The cellist, composer, arranger and conductor, whose career was inextricably linked with Piazzolla and the Nuevo Tango, has died in Buenos Aires
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Review
Hora Cero: Tangos by Carli, Piazzolla, Salgán and Stafano
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: October 2016 Description: The Berlin Phil’s cello section lets its hair down in music with a Latin swing Musicians: Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Composer: Carli, Piazzolla, Salgán ...
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Sol Gabetta and cello ensemble perform Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña
Sol Gabetta joins fellow cellists Ivan Monighetti, Monika Leskovar, Rafael Rosenfeld, Emil Rovner, Asier Polo, Kian Soltani and Astrig Siranossian to perform Astor Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña at the Solsberg Festival in 2015. Watch: Sol Gabetta's cello transformed by light show for BBC Proms Sol Gabetta is The ...
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The 12 seasons. Piazzolla: Cuatro estaciones porteñas. Shor: Four Seasons of Manhattan. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: Carpenter adds Manhattan skies to the familiar Vivaldi–Piazzolla pairing Musicians: David Aaron Carpenter (viola) Salomé Chamber Orchestra Composer: Piazzolla; Shor; Vivaldi Catalogue number: WARNER CLASSICS 2564 64869-5 ...
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Grand Tango!
The Strad Issue: June 2016 Description: Van Keulen and friends revisit the tangos of Ástor Piazzolla Musicians: Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble Composer: Piazzolla The Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen formed her tango nuevo ensemble to ...
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Alvorada: Music by Falla, Granados, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and others
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: December 2015 Description: Gaillard crosses the Atlantic to explore Latin American styles Musicians: Ophélie Gaillard (cello) and friends Composer: Falla, Granados, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos This sumptuously packaged release on the elegant, niche French label Aparté is an ambitious undertaking: over 100 minutes ...