Piazzolla: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

(1921-1992)

Symphonic Works, Volume 2

premiere recording

Sinfonia Buenos Aires, Op. 15 (1951)

25:55

Version by the composer for symphony orchestra

Moderato - Allegretto - Meno mosso - Meno mosso-

8:00

Lento, con amima - Poco più mosso - Più mosso -

8:37

III

Presto marcato - Lento, pesante - Poco più mosso - Allegro energico

9:06

Concerto for Bandoneón, String Orchestra and Percussion (1979)

22:10

Allegro marcato - Cantabile - Cadencia - Meno cantabile -

7:26

Milonga. Moderato - Poesia - Meno mosso

7:32

III

Presto - Moderato, melancolico final - Pesante

7:02

Solo: Juan José Mosalini bandoneón

premiere recording

Mar del Plata 70 (c. 1965)

3:29

Arranged 1995 for symphony orchestra by José Carli

Allegro vivo - Allegro furioso - Poco meno e pesante

premiere recording

Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (1965-69)

19:05

Arranged 1989 for symphony orchestra by Carlos Franzetti

Invierno porteño. Lento y dramático

5:01

Verano porteño

4:14

10.

Otoñno porteño

3:16

11.

Primavera porteña

6:21

Total time: 71:10

Orchestra: Wurttembergische Philarmonie Reutlingen

Conductor: Gabriel Castagna

31 March, 1, 3 and 4 April 2006

Review for previous release:
Gabriel Castagna has already proved himself something of a Piazzolla specialist… all the performances sound affectionate and thoroughly idiomatic, and overall it’s an undeniably enjoyable disc…

BBC Music Magazine on CHAN 10049

Gabriel Castagna leads the Wüttembergische Philharmonic Reutlingen in well-honed, lithely muscular performances that are also intensely idiomatic; and they gain from a recorded sound which has an uncommon sense of spatial depth. The booklet notes are generous and scholarly. In sum: for the Sinfonia and (especially) the Concerto, this is a disc that no one interested in twentieth-century music would want to be without.

International Record Review

The first volume of Castagna’s survey of Piazolla’s orchestral music offered a rare and valuable account of the tango master’s 1953 Sinfonietta… on this new disc, Castagna gives us the first recording of the Sinfonia Buenos Aires. Composed in 1951, it is far more ambitious in scope than the Sinfonietta – and more daring as well… Castagna inspires some ferocious playing from his German orchestra, particularly in the frenetic and feral finale.

Gramophone

The bandonenist Juan José Masolini gravitates towards the pathos of city-life loneliness, not the twee rustic Morris-dance, in his instrument’s evocative wheeze. Wood scrapes and thunderous timps drive the insistent Latin rhythms of Piazolla’s bandoneon concerto, while the strings mourn and flagellate themselves in glissandi. Gabriel Castagna, meanwhile, conducts the German Württembugisches Orchester with a real feel for the tango, especially in the loud, thrilling last movement of the Sinfonia Buenos Aires.

The Times (Knowledge)

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