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| Hommage A Piazzolla | 
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| Creators: Vladimir Tinkha, Michel Portal, Paul Dessau, Jerzy Petersburski, Astor Piazzolla, Alois Posch, Svjatloslav Lips, Elisabeth Chojnacka, Mark Pekarsky, Vadim Sakharov, Gidon Kremer
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 97757
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: 79407
UPC: 075597940725
EAN: 0075597940725
ASIN: B000005J48
Release Date: September 24, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Milonga En Re | | • | Vardarito | | • | Oblivion | | • | Escualo | | • | Histoire Du Tango: Cafe 1930 | | • | Concierto Para Quinteto | | • | Soledad | | • | Buenos Aires Hora Cero | | • | Celos | | • | El Sol Sueno (Hommage A Astor Piazzolla) | | • | Le Grand Tango |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Gidon Kremer, who plays the standard violin repertoire so well, has remained a restless explorer of music. Here is his first album of Piazzolla arrangements, introduced by a moving and perceptive assessment of Piazzolla by composer John Adams. Kremer has completely steeped himself in the spirit of the tango, and of Piazzolla's transformation of this music into concert works. The selection (mostly larger-scale Piazzolla works), the varied arrangements, and the compelling quality of the playing make this one of the best albums of this music not involving the composer's own performances. And if you love it, you'll be glad to know that Kremer's second Piazzolla album is also available. --Leslie Gerber
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 10 stars! September 4, 2007
It was around 2 a.m. when I opened this pretty CD case for the first time.
I was sleepy. I was about to go to bed... You know this feeling at 2 a.m... but as soon as I heard first sound my ears sticked to speakers...
I drowned completely... my imagination went up to the night sky...
It was like fairy tale...
Wonderfully captivating music by the tango master October 25, 2005
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I was introduced to the music of Astor Piazzolla by the more than great violinist Gidon Kremer when he played a virtuosic tango as an encore. Whenever a rich new vein of wonderful music is opened to me, well, it makes for a bright and happy day. Not long after I picked up this CD and I can recommend it to you highly. This is more than just tango dance music, these are serious and contemplative compositions that use the Tango as the vehicle just as the classical and especially Baroque composers used their dance music for instrumental compositions. The music is full of mood, sensuality, rhythm, lush harmonies, dissonance, love, and pain. It is a music of contrasts and never gets too fussy or complicated. It wears its heart on its sleeve and draws us in because it is so charming.
Each piece has its own varied ensemble and the musicians in that ensemble also arrange the music for that track. Kremer leads from the violin in all of them, after all it is his album and his hommage to Piazzolla. However, the instruments used depend on the musical materials and mood of the piece. The piano is used quite a bit, and at times there are wind instruments. The bandoneon is required in tango, as well. It is a kind of concertina that was developed and made in Germany, but adopted in Argentina for the Tango. It has a wonderfully reedy sound and is played with buttons on each side of the bellows. Depending on the model, the note can change or stay the same whether you are pulling the bellows out or pushing them in, but in all of them there are two voices always at the octave and gives the bandoneon its characteristic sound.
The only composition not by Piazzolla is a very interesting tango included as a tribute to the master entitled "El sol sueno" by Jerzy Peterbushsky.
This is good music and a very enjoyable change of pace.
 When styles mix September 7, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this record following a live performance by Gidon Kremer et al. at the Verbier Festival. The mixture of classical music with a dose of jazz on a Latin base produces an interesting result that is quite surprising at first. However, the more one hears, the more the result grows on the listener, just as at the live show where the audience, somewhat stunned at the outset, gave a standing ovation at the end.
Overall, the melange is pleasant, chill listening to be appreciated by fans of any of the three styles of music.
Explains It All To Those Wounded in Love January 15, 2005
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Ever have a moment where you loved someone so much you hated him?
Ever have a relationship you could not get out of your mouth, your mind, your heart, your system, but that you knew was over and done with forever and ever, and you'd never even see the other again?
Ever feel so happy you wanted to cry? No, sob? Wrenching, wracking sobs? From happiness, now.
Yes?
Have I got a CD for you: Hommage a Piazzolla, featuring Gidon Kremer.
Like many, I suspect, I have a mixed relationship to tango. When I put on a tango CD, I fear I'll be hearing something that sets my teeth to jangling and makes me want to slap someone in the face.
This isn't that. You could listen to most of this while sitting perfectly still, on a window sill, in fact, with the lights down low in your apartment, as you stare out at the rain-slicked city at night. A drink sits on a nearby table, unfinished...you have no will to finish it.
(It's hard not to imagine these things while listening to this music; really, it's all so poetic, cinematic, irresistable.)
At some point, though, you're probably not going to be able to sit still any more, and you'll have to put that rose in your teeth and cut a few moves.
Tango often sounds, to we non-Argentinians, like a parody of itself.
This CD does not.
Rather, when I put it on, not at all sure what to expect, I had one of those epiphanies that art can give you.
I had been brooding over a vexed relationship, one I did not understand, but knew was hurting me, not with any immediacy, but like a sore tooth that could stand to go a few more months before you get over your fear of the dentist to get it fixed.
What bugged me most of all was that I did not understand what was hurting. Rationally, I had no reason to feel troubled.
I put on this CD, with the relationship way in the back of my mind, and I just, immediately thought, "That's it. This music is explaining it all; this music is articulating everything."
Not bad.
This kind of music, music that allows in the true bittersweet of life, the unsolvable, the passion, is all too rare. If music that addresses those qualities is what you crave, this CD might be just what you need.
Sensual, romantic, sophisticated, July 21, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The music and perforamance are so sensually played and achingly beautiful, the hairs on my neck and arms stand up on end. Listen to the opening track and tell me this is not sensually intriguing. Yes, tango is a very sensual art form and this CD is great for those very intimate moments. Of course, sex aside, the music is nothing short of a miracle unto itself. That I was to discover this CD just last year meant I was without it for 7 years since it was released. My life is richer for this and other Piazzolla works done by Kremer.
This CD has become one of those "island" CDs that you would take if you wer so to become deserted on one. You should be so lucky!
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