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| Piazzolla: Tango Ballet, Concierto Del Angel, Tres Piezas Para Orquesta De Camara / Kremer, Glorvigen, et al | 
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| Artists: Astor Piazzolla, Per Arne Glorvigen, Alois Posch, Vadim Sakharov, Marta Sudraba, Ula Zebriunaite, Kremer Ata Baltica, Gidon Kremer
Label: Teldec
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $9.37
You Save: $7.61 (45%)
Buy New/Used from $4.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 33233
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 22661
UPC: 639842266123
EAN: 0639842266123
ASIN: B00000J9HQ
Release Date: July 6, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Tango Ballet For Violin And String Orchestra: Titulos | | • | Tango Ballet For Violin And String Orchestra: La Calle | | • | Tango Ballet For Violin And String Orchestra: Encuentro-Olvido | | • | Tango Ballet For Violin And String Orchestra: Cabaret | | • | Tango Ballet For Violin And String Orchestra: Soledad | | • | Tango Ballet For Violin And String Orchestra: La Calle | | • | Concierto Del Angel For Violin, Bandoneon, Double Bass, Piano And String Orchestra: Introduccion Al Angel | | • | Concierto Del Angel For Violin, Bandoneon, Double Bass, Piano And String Orchestra: Milonga Del Angel | | • | Concierto Del Angel For Violin, Bandoneon, Double Bass, Piano And String Orchestra: La Muerte Del Angel | | • | Concierto Del Angel For Violin, Bandoneon, Double Bass, Piano And String Orchestra: Resurreccion Del Angel | | • | Tres Piezas Para Orquesta De Camara - For Piano And String Orchestra: Preludio: Lento | | • | Tres Piezas Para Orquesta De Camara - For Piano And String Orchestra: Fuga: Allegro | | • | Tres Piezas Para Orquesta De Camara - For Piano And String Orchestra: Divertimento: Allegro Molto |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Violinist Gidon Kremer's ongoing fascination with tango master Astor Piazzolla continues to produce gorgeous, swinging CDs that meld dance with classical music. On Tango Ballet, Kremer and his ensemble passionately perform a handful of Piazzolla gems. --Jason Verlinde
Amazon.com
Violinist Gidon Kremer seems always to exceed our expectations. He's offered us spellbinding recordings of Beethoven's duo sonatas with Martha Argerich, a disc of Valentin Silvestrov's music--even an Arvo Paert recording. But lately Kremer has focused on one composer: tango master Astor Piazzolla. With Tango Ballet--an early Piazzolla piece written to accompany a short film--we have yet another gem. Divided up into six movements, Tango Ballet slyly melds chamber music and ballet with tango themes (the Argentinean wasn't yet bitten by the jazz bug when he wrote this). The next grouping, Concierto del Angel, is the real show-stopper on this disc. These highlights from Piazzolla's brooding Angel series of compositions erupt in the spirited hands of Kremer and his ensemble. The bandoneon playing of Per Arne Glorvigen adds a sonic depth not found on Tango Ballet and Kremer--especially on Resurreccion del Angel--sounds simply gorgeous. Kremer's 1998 interpretation of Piazzolla's opera Maria de Buenos Aires is also an essential work. This recording features pieces that are less noteworthy, but the playing is just as exquisite. A must-have for Piazzolla fans. --Jason Verlinde
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Masterpiece June 26, 2007
I don't understand the hysteria about "the missing bandoneon" and what a true piece of "nuevo tango" sounds like. Piazzolla first and foremost was a composer. He didn't write tangos or music for bandoneon. He wrote M-U-S-I-C. Real, original, beautiful, exquisite MUSIC. And that's what you have on this disc. Music, stripped of accidental considerations, that glistens.
Tango Ballet features some breathtakingly beautiful pieces. The highlight of the disc is the Angel Concerto of course. A miniature masterpiece. I consider myself a very lucky person for ever having the chance of listening to it, because it is *divine*.
Gidon Kremer does not need an introduction. His performance is superb, as usual.
I've been a Piazzolla fan for almost 20 years now, I own tons of his recordings, but this CD is one of my favourites. Not to be missed.
i want to give six stars~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! August 12, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
this was my first piazzolla cd, and it made me fall in love with him immediately! The "angel" tracks are incredible...so mysterious in the beginning..but gradually builds up to such a desperate, romantic climax. Piazzolla is a genius for adding some life to classical music!!!!! the rest of the tracks in the beginning and end are funky...i can never ever get bored of the cd. i have been listening to it almost daily for a year! i hope that everyone will enjoy this cd as much as i did, because it converted me from a classical liker to a classical lover!!!!!!!!
 When Homage Turns Hubris: Gidon Kremer's "Tango Ballet" June 3, 2000
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Gidon Kremer's has "Tango Ballet" certainly raised the posthumous eyebrow of the album's composer and Kremer's idol, tango doyen Astor Piazzolla. True, Kremer's transcriptions of Piazzolla are well-played and well-passionate -- but even his inordinate amount of Argentinian amor cannot replace a missing bandoneon. And in that way, the stirring, exciting "Tango Ballet" fails: without the bandoneon, and with many of Kremer's distinctly European artistic liberties, "Tango Ballet" no longer sounds like "el nuevo tango." Instead, it's a hideous step closer to Andre Rien. "Tango Ballet" is a good listen, bearing much of the intensity so characteristic of Piazzolla. But it doesn't bear that bandoneon -- and in said shift of sound and timbre, Kremer has taken the tango god's music and made it his own. Some tribute.
simply great music and great playing September 5, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
thank you to kremer and friends for bringing us yet another remarkable recording on piazzolla. i'm not a fan of tango and have not listened to any of piazzolla's own recordings, but am already overwhelmed by these tango-fugues completely. with the transcriptions and playing at such a standard, i suspect even piazzolla would smile. speaking from the music itself, kremer and friends have brought every drop of emotion alive. the dynamics of the playing is so strong that it embrace everything from bach's structure to debussy's tone colour and schnittke's blood and sweat tension. i would recommend this cd to anyone who likes great music. once again, thank you to kremer and his energetic kremerata baltica!
 This is not Tango August 6, 1999
4 out of 47 found this review helpful
I bought this cd because of the title, Tango-Ballet, expecting Tango music. Belive me this is not Tango music, it is cat-screeching. I would NOT recommend this cd to anyone.
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