Personality: Astor Piazzolla con Orchestra — Adiós Nonino — Audio CD

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Product Details:

• UPC: 8712177018475
• Catalog Number: PRS 23195
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Personality (Intermusic S.A.)
• Artist: Astor Piazzolla (con Orchestra)
• Producer: Aldo Pagani
• Release Year: 1994 (℗ 1993)
• Genre: Tango / Latin
• Style: Nuevo tango, instrumental

Product Features

• Format: CD
• Discs: 1
• Total playing time: 60:51
• Recording: ADD
• Made in: Portugal
• Licensed from A.A.A. Pagani S.R.L., Milan, Italy
• Condition: Brand new, factory sealed

Overview

Adiós Nonino is the piece Piazzolla wrote for his father in 1959, and it became the emotional center of his life's work — a tango that holds grief and tenderness in the same line. It opens this collection, and from there the disc moves through some of his most enduring orchestral tango writing: the autumnal "Otoño Porteño," the driving "Michelangelo 70," the chamber-tight counterpoint of "Fuga y Misterio."

Piazzolla took the tango out of the dance hall and made it concert music, fusing it with jazz and classical structures while keeping the bandoneón's voice at the center — here, his own. The orchestral settings give the music room to breathe without losing the bite.

Five of the tracks are instrumental numbers drawn from his operetta María de Buenos Aires. Produced by his longtime publisher Aldo Pagani and licensed from the Pagani catalog in Milan, the program runs just over an hour — a solid single-disc survey of Piazzolla the composer and player.

Interesting Facts

• Piazzolla composed "Adiós Nonino" in 1959 in memory of his father, Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla; "nonino" is an affectionate Italian-dialect word for grandfather.
• He studied composition in Paris with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger, who famously urged him to embrace the tango rather than abandon it for classical music.
• His instrument, the bandoneón — a German-built button accordion — became the defining sound of the tango after arriving in Argentina in the late 19th century.
• Tracks here including "Fuga y Misterio" and "Tocata Rea" come from his 1968 operetta (operita) María de Buenos Aires.
• Piazzolla's "nuevo tango" was controversial in Argentina at first, dividing traditionalists before being embraced worldwide as concert music.

Track Listing

1. Adiós Nonino — 8:00
2. Otoño Porteño — 5:06
3. Michelangelo 70 — 3:19
4. Contramilonga a la Funerala — 5:07
5. Fuga y Misterio — 3:16
6. Coral — 5:53
7. Fugata — 2:49
8. Tocata Rea — 4:34
9. Tangata del Alba — 4:54
10. Allegro Tangabile — 2:50
11. Soledad — 6:51
12. Final — 7:49

Tracks 4, 5, 8, 9, 10: instrumental music from the operetta "María de Buenos Aires."

Publishers

Released on the Personality label (Intermusic S.A.), catalog PRS 23195. ℗ 1993 / © 1994 A.A.A. Pagani S.R.L., Milan, Italy. Produced by Aldo Pagani. Made in Portugal.

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