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| Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla | 
 enlarge | Creators: Edwin Barker, Hector Console, Yo-yo Ma, Jorge Calandrelli, Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Malvicino, Odair Assad, Oscar Castro-neves, Sergio Assad, Frank Corliss, Gerardo Gandini, Kathryn Stott, Leonardo Marconi, Antonio Agri
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (28 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4323
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 63122
UPC: 074646312223
EAN: 0074646312223
ASIN: B0000029XQ
Release Date: October 2, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Libertango | | • | Tango Suite: Andante | | • | Tango Suite: Allegro | | • | Tango Suite: Sur: Regreso Al Amor | | • | Tango Suite: Le Grand Tango | | • | Tango Suite: Fugata | | • | Tango Remembrances | | • | Mumuki | | • | Tres Minutos Con La Realidad | | • | Milonga Del Angel | | • | Cafe 1930 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Yo-Yo Ma might seem like an unlikely protagonist for the tango, but this intrepid musical explorer has taken his task seriously, collaborating with experienced tango musicians. Ma even participates in a posthumous collaboration with one 1987 Piazzolla recording. Furthermore, while he's obviously the headliner here, he doesn't dominate the arrangements nearly as much as he does the billing and photography of the disc. While the result isn't your essential Piazzolla album (that would have to include more of the composer's own playing), it's an atmospheric and convincing collection, perhaps a good introduction for those who don't know the music. --Leslie Gerber
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 A Must... February 6, 2008
If you love Astor Piazzolla's music, this is one of the best disc ever... Yo-Yo MA's Cello get a new level with this masterpieces, Mumuki is my personal favorite... Also recommended Astor Piazzolla In Portrait (DVD).
Another kind of tango January 28, 2008
I bought this cd because I heard the piece called Libertango by Piazzolla and really liked it, Piazzolla is considered a new kind of tango and some tango lovers or tango experts say his music isn't exactly tango, I'm just a music lover and I think the music is pretty great and performed by YO YO MA sounds even better. I highly reccomend it.
Dessert Island! (intentional) November 14, 2007
This is one of my top ten recordings all time, any instruments, any genre. Up there with the best of the best like "Kind of Blue." The Assad brothers are rhythmically intense and just plain amazing. Yo-Yo is clearly inspired and they are all "in the zone." The tango suite is my favorite part of this recording. Regresso al Amor rips my heart out every time I listen to it, and I actually physically have tears many times. I would also recommend Astor's "Tango Zero Hour."
So beautiful it borders on painful sometimes September 7, 2007
I just discovered Piazzolla. I first bought the Kronos album Five Tango Sensations. Almost wore it out. Then bought a bunch - a couple of Piazzolla himself - Central Park, Greatest Hits -- then a Gerry Mulligan. I love them all because Piazzolla just grabs you like an addiction and won't let go. But Yo Yo Ma Soul of Tango is the one that lives fairly permanently in my car CD player and also has a perpetual checkmark in my Itunes library. The Cafe 1830, Grand Tango, Mumuki, and the incomparable Milonga del Angel, where Yo Yo refuses to hit that high note -- slides almost as if he is being tortured into it -- finally hits it perfectly of course. This CD is better than chocolate, and almost as good as making love. I'm so glad I discovered Piazzolla before I died.
A magnificent way to expand your musical horizons from typical classical or cultural music July 24, 2007
I had been lusting after this CD for a long time, and the main reason I bought it on Amazon is that the complete CD is not available for sale through the online music retailers, such as iTunes that I typically use. What makes this such a great CD is that it takes a Cello, an instrument that most people associate with Bach or large orchestras, and allows the instrument, through the talented playing of world-acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to create beautiful, melodic and cultural music so passionately that at times one might mistake it for a human voice. The CD contains a very healthy variety of songs, and makes a valuable addition to any connoisseur's collection.
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