Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires Classical Opera Capriccio

Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires

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C5 0305

Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires

Label Catalogue Number:
C5305

Running Time: 01:30:54

Release Date: March 2019
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical
Opera

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Piazzolla himself likened María to the tango and its historical ups and downs, which is probably the best way of understanding how the piece was received, alongside the fact that it embodied a musical voice that was unique in the second half of the 20th century, indeed in the New Music scene as a whole. 'I learnt something: to be patient, to be self-critical, to co-ordinate reflection with passion. Now I am told: That is a different Piazzolla, but that is not the case. I am the same man, but I have reached a synthesis', said Piazzolla.

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“… Bonilla-Torres is subtly understated, blessed with a voice you’d be happy to hear working its way through the Buenos Aires telephone directory… [Mancini] is equally good, her nicotine-stained vocals conveying a semi-detached fatalism that makes María dangerously compelling…The documentation, text and translation are first-rate. So if you fancy María de Buenos Aires typeset in Opera Bold, this is for you too.”

Opera magazine - July 2019

“Sprenger unearths a vein of sadness in the score that is easy to overlook amid its bravado, and his more classical approach pointedly reminds us both of Piazzolla’s debt to Bach and of the work’s antecedents in Weill’s Dreigroschenoper and Mahagonny… Mancini’s bravura way with ‘Yo soy María’ [bristles] with energy and courage.”

Gramophone magazine - June 2019

“… María is sung by mezzo Luciana Mancini with low-key passion. Christopher Sprenger conducts with precise and snappy rhythms that also allow some sway…”

Opera Now - May 2019

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