Piazzolla: Soul of the Tango

Yo-Yo Ma | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Performers: Gerardo Gandini, Horacio Malvicino, Hector Console, Sergio Assad, Kathryn Stott, Edwin Barker, Yo-Yo Ma, Odair Assad, Antonio Agri, Leonardo Marconi, Frank Corliss
• Composers: Jorge Calandrelli, Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
• Original Release Date: November 11, 1997
• Label: Sony Classical
• Copyright: (P) 1997 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Unknown
• Total Length: 1:03:19
• Genres: Classical/Historical Periods/Classical (c.1770-1830)
• ASIN: B00136Q2XO
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,095 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)
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  • #35 in MP3 Downloads > MP3 Albums > Classical > Instruments > Strings

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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A feast for the ears and the soul, June 22, 2000

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Shirley Li (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla (Audio CD)

Yo Yo Ma has always been the frontrunner when it comes to experiencing new water in music. In this fantastic collection of Astor Piazzolla's best known tangos, Ma's breathtaking technique fuses w/ other instrumentalists, who happen to be Piazzolla's closest colleagues when he was alive. Instead of obtruding w/ his virtuous play on the cello, Ma's cello plays the role of a coordinator as he seams soul into the ensemble w/ a wide range of instruments. Yet always in concordance and an odd sense of balance, this recording exhilerates its listeners, and plus the video bonus that enables listeners to observe Ma's playing in the midst of tango dancers, even the dullest classical lovers would want to jump up and forsake the atmosphere of tradition. I highly recommended Fugota, with zesty hight notes of violin with Ma's ambiguous spiccato, this track is a seductive force that sweeps you off your feet. The curves, the turns, the surprises of tango are so cantagious that you cannot turn your heart away from this charmer.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully passionate, December 11, 1999

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Eugene Mah "physics geek" (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla (Audio CD)

Yo-Yo Ma's rendition of Libertango is magnificent. Full of passion. Makes you want to get up and dance! And plug the CD into your computer to watch the video, an interview with Yo-Yo Ma and pictures. Buy it now.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Yo Yo Ma CD, June 17, 2000

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Ernest Boehm (Des Plaines, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla (Audio CD)

This is the work of two musical masters Piazzolla and Yo Yo Ma. Ma cello is flawless in its attack. He uses his technique now for emphesis and focuses more on the perfection of Tone and dynamics in this work. Here is an recording not played with constant vibrato as most of Ma's work, but in clean tones and sharp precise changes in tempo dynmaincs and melody.

This was my first Tango recording and is still my favorite. Piazzolla is impressive in his ability to make the music dance in your mind. The instruments and musicians are in a dance themselves if they were to seperate or not play together in the exactitude of a dance they would fail, but they also bring the passion of music that ins mixed with carefree and bitter sweet sounds.

This is worth the risk even if your uncertain about listen ing to Tangos