Astor Piazzolla, The Vienna Concert - 42m 50s

Tracks & Durations

1. Fracanapa	3:59
2. Verano Porteño	6:46
3. Caliente	4:51
4. Decarísimo	2:58
5. Libertango	4:04
6. Revirado	3:35
7. Invierno Porteño	7:22
8. Adios Nonino	9:09

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Review

New tango, the genre Piazzolla helped invent in the mid-1950s, went through a rush in the 1980s, with its greatest champion unleashing profound performance after profound performance--many of them thankfully caught on tape. This 1983 recording from Vienna, Europe's classical breadbasket, brings out Astor Piazzolla's fire-breathing side. Sure, it's rife with touching melodies, but it's also got a torching intensity, seeming ever on the edge of eruption. Pianist Pablo Ziegler stands out with darkened chords and menacing keyboard hits, even while Fernando Suárez Paz makes lovely harmonies on the violin and Piazzolla follows the high strings step-for-step. The compositions here are in some cases standards for the quintet, and in some cases reinventions of earlier themes. In its nearly four minutes alone, "Libertango" is a near-perfect balance of abandon and harmonic-melodic control, reaching to become one of the group's best performances ever. --Andrew Bartlett

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