Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) is especially known for being one of the greatest Argentinean bandonean performers. Like the guitarist Andres Segovia Piazzolla has taken his instrument and the tango on to an international concert stage.
He started to play the bandoneon at a very early age and played when only thirteen years old with Carlos Gardél and his band. Once his extraordinary talent was discovered he joint the band of Anibal Tróila, the master of the classical tango. After Tróila´s death Piazzolla went to Paris to study with a government scholarship under Nadia Boulanger. Probably thanks to her Piazzolla became aware of the possibilities of the music of South America and, more particular, the tango music of his homeland Argentina. From this
time Piazzolla´s reformed the traditional tango into a style that was called the 'tango nuevo'. Back in his homeland he was soon recognized the leading figure of the genre and it didn´t take long before his international breakthrough became a fact. In 1973 he moved again to Europe; this time to Italy where he started a recording project that took five years to complete. In this time he composed his famous Libertango, a work that brought him fame and an enormous success in Europe.The setting for mandolin orchestra of Piazzollas Libertango by the conductor of HET CONSORT was made after hearing the fine arrangement of the work for accordion orchestra that was made by the Dutch musician Marc Belder. With his orchestration as the starting point the liberty was taken to re-arrange it for plucked- and plectrum played instruments. Here it is performed by HET CONSORT and Pauline Ulderink (normally one of the mandolinists) on accordeon. Together with compositions by Bach, Händel, Rossini, Calace, Andriessen and Sibelius it has been recorded by HET CONSORT on their 2nd CD Omaggio a Luigi Embergher. The video was made by Jan Ulderink during a concert in the LOC Culture House in Hardenberg (Overijssel), Netherlands in 2007.
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