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1 result
for:
Casi un Tango
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Composer:
Jose Serebrier
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Duration: 5:50
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Instrumentation: solo ehn (or fl, or cl, or bn, or hn, or tpt), str orch
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While on a tour in Germany with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, I was asked to do an unusual program featuring Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony preceded by tangos by Kurt Weill, Stravinsky and Piazzolla. In view of the enthusiastic audience reaction, it was proposed that we make a recording of tangos by these and other composers. We proceeded to put together a mixed bag, from Weill’s German and French periods, to Stravinsky's peculiar take on the form, Satie's minimalist 'perpetual' tango, and Gade's flamboyant, popular Tango Jalousie. Piazzolla could not be left out. The resulting recording “Tango in Blue” is on BIS CD 1175.
Casi un Tango (Almost a Tango) is an entirely different piece [from Tango in Blue], nostalgic and more “classical.” No longer having the 4/4 beat as a basis, it is a much more rhapsodic piece, salon music in a simple a-b-a form. The relation to the popular concept of tango is in the spirit and character of the music. While Casi un Tango was conceived as a work for English Horn and string it works perfectly well with other solo instruments. Alternate solo parts are provided for flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, French Horn, and Trumpet.
—José Serebrier |
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